Senior Software Engineer - Stability

Mercury is a fintech company that provides powerful banking services. The Stability team is crucial for ensuring the reliability of these services by helping product engineers identify patterns of instability, defining incident response, and improving observability and platform health.

Introduction

Mercury's Stability team is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to champion and enhance the reliability of their powerful banking services. You will lead projects end-to-end, drive technical decisions, and ensure the long-term scalability and stability of Mercury's systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead Projects End-to-End: Drive technical projects from concept to production. Define solutions, analyze tradeoffs, make critical decisions, and deliver software that works today and is sustainable for tomorrow.
• Champion Reliability: Make technical choices that improve the reliability of Mercury's systems and make it easier to get reliability by default. Participate in Stability's on-call and advocate for improvements based on that experience.
• Measure Your Outcomes: Define and collect metrics that show how your work creates value for the business.
• Approach Code with Craft: Write clear, testable, and maintainable code. Establish patterns and best practices that Engineering can follow, ensuring long-term scalability and reliability.
• Build for Quality & Sustainability: Design extensible systems, make balanced decisions on tech debt, plan careful rollouts, and own the quality of your work through post-launch monitoring.
• Improve the Developer Experience: Approach problems with a product mindset. Get close to internal customers by supporting them and getting feedback from them. You care as much about the business impact of what you build as the technical design.

Requirements

• Expertise in PostgreSQL with query optimization, tuning, replication, pooling/proxying, or client-side libraries.
• Experience with other data systems supporting a relational database: event streaming, OLAP, caches, etc.
• Authored and operated Temporal workflows.
• Familiarity with tracing and OpenTelemetry.
• Experience leading moderate-to-large technical projects, including planning, execution, and stakeholder management.

Nice to Have

• Past Site Reliability Engineering or DevOps experience.
• Haskell or other functional programming experience.

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 job candidate’s experience, expertise, geographic location, and internal pay equity relative to peers.

About Company

Mercury prides itself in providing powerful banking services. The Stability team helps product engineers identify and resolve instability by championing observability, defining incident response, supporting robust background work processing, and monitoring platform and database health.

How to Apply

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