Senior Software Engineer - Domestic Wires
AI summary of the role
Senior Software Engineer on Mercury's Domestic Wires team, owning engineering for secure, compliant domestic wire transfers that enable businesses to move capital reliably.
What you’ll do
- Lead technical projects from concept to production
- Partner with product, risk, and banking teams
- Write clear, testable backend code and establish best practices
- Design extensible systems and own post-launch quality
What you’ll bring
- 7+ years backend software engineering experience
- Proven leading technical projects at scale
- Experience maintaining/improving legacy systems
- Clear communication with non-technical stakeholders
Technologies
backend · high-reliability systems · legacy systems
About Mercury
Banking and financial-operations platform built for startups and small businesses, offering checking, savings, treasury, credit cards, bill pay, venture debt, and payroll.
Series C
Source and classification
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The electrical grid isn’t flashy — but it powers everything. Homes, hospitals, factories, and entire cities depend on infrastructure that is always on, carefully regulated, and engineered for resilience. When it works, no one notices. When it doesn’t, everything stops. Domestic Wires plays that role at Mercury. We own the engineering behind secure, compliant, and reliable domestic wire transfers — enabling businesses to move significant amounts of capital with precision and trust. The systems we build must balance speed with safety, scale with strict controls, and product flexibility with regulatory requirements. As a Senior Engineer, you’ll operate at the core of Mercury’s money movement platform. You’ll design and evolve high-reliability systems, influence technical strategy, partner across product, risk, and banking* teams, and mentor others as we scale. This is an opportunity to
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The electrical grid isn’t flashy — but it powers everything. Homes, hospitals, factories, and entire cities depend on infrastructure that is always on, carefully regulated, and engineered for resilience. When it works, no one notices. When it doesn’t, everything stops. Domestic Wires plays that role at Mercury. We own the engineering behind secure, compliant, and reliable domestic wire transfers — enabling businesses to move significant amounts of capital with precision and trust. The systems we build must balance speed with safety, scale with strict controls, and product flexibility with regulatory requirements. As a Senior Engineer, you’ll operate at the core of Mercury’s money movement platform. You’ll design and evolve high-reliability systems, influence technical strategy, partner across product, risk, and banking* teams, and mentor others as we scale. This is an opportunity to work on infrastructure where durability, clarity, and strong judgment matter as much as raw speed. *Mercury is a fintech company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided through Choice Financial Group and Column N.A., Members FDIC. What You’ll Do Lead Projects End-to-End: Drive technical projects from concept to production. Define solutions, analyze tradeoffs, make critical decisions, and deliver software that works today and is sustainable for tomorrow. Collaborate Across Function [... source excerpt omitted ...] ovey as part of our hiring and / or promotional process for jobs in NYC and certain features may qualify it as an AEDT. As part of the evaluation process we provide Covey with job requirements and candidate submitted applications. We began using Covey Scout for Inbound on January 22, 2024. [Please see the independent bias audit report covering our use of Covey for more information.] #LI-MC1
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