Engineering Manager - Bank Accounts

The role

You will lead a team of 4 to 8 senior engineers to deliver high-availability banking services. You will build the foundation for depository accounts to support how customers open, use, manage, and move money.

What you will do

• Lead a team of 4 to 8 senior engineers to deliver high-availability banking services.
• Translate company and product direction into clear, measurable team objectives.
• Build a predictable delivery system that makes progress, risks, and tradeoffs visible.
• Balance customer-facing improvements with platform reliability, operational readiness, and long-term maintainability.
• Partner with Product, Design, Risk, Compliance, and Operations.
• Hire and onboard engineers while maintaining a consistent, high-quality interview process.
• Hold the team accountable for using AI-assisted development responsibly.
• Give clear, useful feedback to engineers at every level.
• Create an environment where engineers can do their best work and grow their technical and leadership skills.

Required qualifications

• Demonstrated ability to lead a technical team.
• Experience building or operating reliable financial, banking, payments, or other high-integrity systems.
• Comfortable working across product, policy, infrastructure, and operational boundaries.
• Ability to turn ambiguous problems into clear decisions, owners, and execution plans.
• Strong technical judgment and the ability to engage deeply with system design and implementation.
• Experience developing senior engineers and creating opportunities for engineers to lead.
• Care deeply about correctness, reliability, customer experience, and operational excellence.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with Haskell and TypeScript
• Interest in learning Haskell and TypeScript

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.