Engineering Manager - Bank Accounts

Mercury • Portland, OR

1d • $200,700 - $250,900

About The Position

The Bank Accounts team at Mercury plays a crucial role in building the foundation for depository accounts, managing money held in Mercury accounts, and facilitating money movement between customer accounts. This role is particularly exciting as Mercury is opening its own bank, and this team will be instrumental in building the core systems required to manage customer accounts at scale. The systems and capabilities developed will support how customers open, use, manage, and transfer funds between their accounts. The Engineering Manager will ensure the banking core operates seamlessly, enabling a smooth customer experience.

Requirements

• Demonstrated ability to lead a technical team.
• Experience building or operating reliable financial, banking, payments, or other high-integrity systems.
• Comfortable working across product, policy, infrastructure, and operational boundaries.
• Ability to turn ambiguous problems into clear decisions, owners, and execution plans.
• Strong technical judgment and the ability to engage deeply with system design and implementation.
• Experience developing senior engineers and creating opportunities for engineers to lead.
• Deep care for correctness, reliability, customer experience, and operational excellence.
• Familiarity with Haskell and TypeScript, or an interest in learning them.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of 4 to 8 senior engineers to deliver high-availability banking services.
• Translate company and product direction into clear, measurable team objectives.
• Build a predictable delivery system that makes progress, risks, and tradeoffs visible.
• Balance customer-facing improvements with platform reliability, operational readiness, and long-term maintainability.
• Partner with Product, Design, Risk, Compliance, and Operations to make Mercury’s banking products reliable, understandable, and useful.
• Hire and onboard engineers while maintaining a consistent, high-quality interview process.
• Hold the team accountable for using AI-assisted development responsibly, with appropriate testing, evaluation, review, and production safeguards.
• Give clear, useful feedback to engineers at every level.
• Create an environment where engineers can do their best work and grow their technical and leadership skills.

Benefits

• Base salary
• Equity (stock options/RSUs)
• Competitive salary and equity ranges within the SaaS and fintech industry
• Regularly updated compensation data
• Reasonable accommodations throughout the recruitment process for applicants with disabilities or special needs

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed