Senior Software Engineer, Investments Team

Mercury captures the innovative spirit of modern startups, providing an exceptional banking experience by developing solutions for founders to utilize idle capital effectively. Our Investments Team builds a financial platform that merges maximizing yield with capital preservation, designed specifically for high-growth startups.

The Investments Team consists of backend and frontend engineers dedicated to crafting sophisticated products overseeing billions in customer assets as Mercury expands. We maintain a high standard of precision and excellence.

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Investments Team, you’ll play a key role as a technical leader and hands-on engineer in building scaled, novel, and compliant Trading & Custody systems. These systems power our Treasury and Invest products and empower our internal Investment Operations team with robust and efficient tools. You will showcase a strong sense of ownership in a collaborative, cross-functional environment while bringing the entire engineering team along with you as a leader.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead high-impact, cross-functional projects across the Investments space.
• Architect, build, and scale brokerage trading and/or custody systems and processes.
• Collaborate with product, operations, and compliance to ship thoughtful features for our customers and internal users.
• Feel a strong sense of product ownership and actively seek responsibility—we want someone excited to help shape and build Mercury’s future.
• Join a team of engineers who do not take themselves seriously as they manage billions of dollars of customer assets.

Ideal Candidate:

• Has 5-7+ years of backend experience with a strong sense of ownership and detail.
• Domain knowledge of broker-dealer trading and/or custody systems that support both individual securities (equities, fixed income) as well as ETFs and mutual funds.
• Understands scale and isn’t afraid to dig into AWS and infrastructure solutions.
• Has been the technical lead of complex projects with many stakeholders from inception to completion with a track record of success.
• Made architectural decisions measuring the impact of those decisions over time. You should be able to clearly articulate your technical opinions and lay out tradeoffs.