Software Engineer - Mercury Command
About The Position
Mercury is hiring a Software Engineer for Command, its LLM-powered financial assistant. Launched to all customers in June 2026, Command helps users understand their finances and take actions in plain language, including asking about cash flow, sending payments, issuing cards, and managing invoices. The role focuses on evolving the product, extending its capabilities, and finding new ways to use LLMs to improve the banking experience for Mercury customers. The engineer will help design and ship Command skills and capabilities, working with product and compliance teams to define success and build tests that verify each capability. They will join a small team of product and AI engineers. The product and its priorities are evolving, so this role calls for comfort with ambiguity and a scrappy startup environment. Mercury’s total rewards package includes base salary, equity in the form of stock options or RSUs, and benefits. Target new-hire base salary ranges are $122,400–$176,000 USD for US employees and $115,700–$166,399 CAD for Canadian employees. Offers are based on experience, expertise, geographic location, and internal pay equity.
Requirements
- 1–4 years of backend or full-stack development experience.
- Knowledge of, or enthusiasm for learning, Haskell, React, TypeScript, and Redux.
- Experience building LLM-powered products.
- Experience building and shipping new products, with a strong product-minded approach.
- Empathy for users and the ability to apply their perspective when building products.
- Ability to balance tradeoffs and find creative solutions.
- Actively uses AI tools in their workflow and is enthusiastic about using them to amplify impact, such as accelerating development, improving code quality, or solving difficult problems.
- Comfort working amid ambiguity and shifting priorities in a scrappy startup environment.
Responsibilities
- Design and ship new Command skills and capabilities.
- Partner with product and compliance teams to define what correct behavior means for new capabilities.
- Build tests that demonstrate and verify new capabilities work correctly.
- Help evolve Command and identify ways to use LLMs to create a more powerful banking experience for customers.
- Take product ownership and actively seek responsibility.
- Collaborate with a small team of product and AI engineers.
Benefits
- Equity in the form of stock options or RSUs
- Benefits are included in Mercury’s total rewards package; specific benefits are not listed.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
