Senior Engineering Manager - Credit Cards

The role

You will lead a team of 7+ backend and full-stack engineers building the foundation of Mercury's credit card platform. You will partner with Product, Risk, Compliance, Operations, and Finance to deliver credit products and build scalable systems.

What you will do

• Lead a team of 7+ backend and full-stack engineers
• Hire, mentor, and retain high-performing engineers
• Help shape the organization structure as the payment rails group scales
• Coach emerging leaders inside of 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

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of experience managing software engineering teams at multiple organizations
• Has been hired as an external manager previously
• 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
• Strong technical judgment and credibility
• Familiar with our tech stack (especially Haskell), or excited to learn it
• Experience in finance, fintech, or banking systems

Nice to have

• experience leading remote-first, distributed teams
• credit card experience

Benefits

• base salary
• equity (stock options/RSUs)
• benefits

About the company

Mercury is a fintech company. Banking services are provided through Choice Financial Group and Column N.A., Members FDIC.