Senior Engineering Manager – Domestic Wires & Real-time Payments

We're looking for a seasoned engineering leader to guide the Domestic Wires & RTP team through its next stage of growth. This role will be the senior frontline manager in the payment rails group.

As part of this role, you will:

• 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

The ideal candidate for the role:

• Has 5+ years of experience managing software engineering teams at multiple organizations
• 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
• Is familiar with our tech stack (especially Haskell), or excited to learn it
• Has experience in finance, fintech, or banking systems (payments experience is a plus)

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.