Senior Software Engineer - Payments

In 1872, the Western Union corporation used their telegraph system to send the world’s first wire transfer; customers thousands of miles apart could now send each other money in minutes. This was the first in a century and a half of innovations that brought us step by step to the modern world of electronic banking. Moving money electronically remains the beating heart of the system.

At Mercury, we’re committed to crafting the world’s best payment experience for our customers, and we’re looking to hire full-stack and front-end engineers to join us in this mission.

As part of this role, you will:

• Join a small but mighty team of experienced engineers within Mercury’s Banking Product group.
• Learn the inner workings of the global payments system.
• Deliver payment systems that are delightful to use.
• Operate fault-tolerant systems that scale.

The ideal candidate for the role:

• Has 3-7 years of full-stack or front-end development experience, with knowledge of or excitement to learn Haskell, React, TypeScript, and Redux.

• Empathizes with users and can channel their perspective to build lovable products.
• Can balance tradeoffs and find creative solutions to accomplish goals.
• Communicates and collaborates effectively with peers and cross-functional counterparts.

If this role interests you, we invite you to explore our public demo at demo.mercury.com. 

The total rewards package at Mercury includes base salary, equity (stock options), and benefits. Our salary and equity ranges are highly competitive within the SaaS and fintech industry and are updated regularly using the most reliable compensation survey data for our industry. New hire offers are made based on a candidate’s experience, expertise, geographic location, and internal pay equity relative to peers.

Our target new hire base salary ranges for this role are the following:

• US employees (any location): $173,600 - 204,200
• Canadian employees (any location): CAD $158,000 - $185,800

*Mercury is a financial technology company, not a bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group and Evolve Bank & Trust, Members FDIC.

 

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