Mercury
Senior Backend Engineer - Product
$167K–$208K
San Francisco, CA, New York, NY, Portland, OR, or Remote within Canada or United States +1 · Remote · Senior · Full-time · Posted Jul 1, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco, CA, New York, NY, Portland, OR, or Remote within Canada or United States
Any Office or Remote - Experience
- 3-7 years of backend development experience.
About the job
Build backend product features for Mercury’s banking and fintech products, collaborating with product and design partners to create customer-focused experiences.
What you'll do
- Take ownership of and help shape and build product projects in an autonomous team.
- Partner with designers and product leaders to ship customer-focused experiences.
- Make architectural decisions, explain technical tradeoffs, and assess their impact over time.
What they ask for
- 3-7 years of backend development experience.
- Proficiency in SQL.
- Experience making architectural decisions and articulating technical opinions and tradeoffs.
- Effective communication and collaboration with peers and cross-functional counterparts.
Nice to have
- Knowledge of Haskell or enthusiasm for learning it.
- Empathy for users and a product-minded approach.
Pay
$166,600 — $208,300 USD (base salary); $157,400 — $196,800 CAD (base salary)
Tools
Haskell, SQL
AI focus
Actively use AI tools in the workflow to accelerate development, improve code quality, or solve difficult problems creatively.
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