Senior Software Engineer - Investments

About the role

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Investments Team, you'll play a key role as a technical leader and hands-on engineer in building scaled, novel, and compliant Trading & Custody systems. These systems power our Treasury and Invest products and empower our internal Investment Operations team with robust and efficient tools. You will showcase a strong sense of ownership in a collaborative, cross-functional environment while bringing the entire engineering team along with you as a leader.

Responsibilities

• Lead high-impact, cross-functional projects across the Investments space.
• Architect, build, and scale brokerage trading and/or custody systems and processes.
• Collaborate with product, operations, and compliance to ship thoughtful features for our customers and internal users.
• Feel a strong sense of product ownership and actively seek responsibility – we want someone excited to help shape and build Mercury's future.
• Join a team of engineers who do not take themselves seriously as we manage billions of dollars of customer assets.

Qualifications

• Has 5-7+ years of backend experience with a strong sense of ownership and detail.
• Domain knowledge of broker-dealer trading and/or custody systems that support both individual securities (equities, fixed income) as well as ETFs and mutual funds.
• Understands scale and isn't afraid to dig into AWS and infrastructure solutions.
• Has been the technical lead of complex projects with many stakeholders from inception to completion with a track record of success.
• Made architectural decisions measuring the impact of those decisions over time. You should be able to clearly articulate your technical opinions and lay out tradeoffs.