Senior Engineering Manager – Domestic Wires & Real-time Payments

Mercury is a fintech company focused on building secure and reliable payment systems. They are seeking a seasoned engineering leader to guide the Domestic Wires & RTP team, responsible for leading engineers, driving execution against goals, and fostering a high-performing team environment.

Responsibilities:

• Lead a team of 7+ backend and full-stack engineers
• Hire, mentor, and retain high-performing engineers across experience levels
• Help shape the organization structure as the payment rails group scales
• Coach emerging leaders within the group
• Drive predictable execution against company and product goals
• Foster a healthy, engaging, and high-performing team environment
• Uphold a high bar for technical quality, reliability, and system stability
• Align engineering work with Mercury’s values and long-term strategy
• Partner closely with product and design to identify and prioritize high-impact work
• Collaborate across teams to build cohesive products and simpler, more maintainable systems
• Balance new development with ongoing maintenance and operational excellence

Requirements:

• 5+ years of experience managing software engineering teams at multiple organizations
• Experience leading remote-first, distributed teams is a plus
• Has been hired as an external manager previously and knows how to gain domain knowledge to have positive impact quickly
• Experience operating in high-responsibility/high-impact domains
• Comfortable with ambiguity and growing scope
• Track record of leading through cross-functional and cross-team coordination
• Brings strong technical judgment and credibility: you'll interview at a similar technical depth as senior ICs
• Familiar with our tech stack (especially Haskell), or excited to learn it
• Experience in finance, fintech, or banking systems (payments experience is a plus)