Engineering Manager - Bank Accounts

Mercury•San Francisco, NY

18h

About The Position

The Bank Accounts team at Mercury builds the foundation for depository accounts, managing money held in Mercury accounts and helping customers move money between accounts they own. As Mercury is opening its own bank, this team will build a major part of the foundation needed to manage customer accounts at that scale. The systems and capabilities we build will support how customers open, use, manage, and move money between their accounts. Your job as an engineering manager at Mercury is to make our banking core run so smoothly that people barely notice it’s there.

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.
Care deeply about correctness, reliability, customer experience, and operational excellence.
Familiarity with our tech stack (specifically, Haskell and TypeScript), or have an interest in learning it.

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.