The Senior Software Engineer, Investments will lead technical projects and build scaled trading and custody systems for Treasury and Invest products. This role requires 5-7+ years of backend experience, domain knowledge of broker-dealer systems, and experience leading complex projects from inception to completion.
Senior Software Engineer, Investments
As a Senior Software Engineer on the Investments Team, you’ll play a key role as a technical leader and hands-on engineer in building scaled, novel, and compliant Trading & Custody systems. These systems power our Treasury and Invest products and empower our internal Investment Operations team with robust and efficient tools. You will showcase a strong sense of ownership in a collaborative, cross-functional environment while bringing the entire engineering team along with you as a leader.
As part of this role, you will:
- Lead high-impact, cross-functional projects across the Investments space.
- Architect, build, and scale brokerage trading and/or custody systems and processes.
- Collaborate with product, operations, and compliance to ship thoughtful features for our customers and internal users.
- Feel a strong sense of product ownership and actively seek responsibility – we want someone excited to help shape and build Mercury’s future.
- Join a team of engineers who do not take themselves seriously as we manage billions of dollars of customer assets.
The ideal candidate for the role:
- Has 5-7+ years of backend experience with a strong sense of ownership and detail.
- Domain knowledge of broker-dealer trading and/or custody systems that support both individual securities (equities, fixed income) as well as ETFs and mutual funds.
- Understands scale and isn’t afraid to dig into AWS and infrastructure solutions.
- Has been the technical lead of complex projects with many stakeholders from inception to completion with a track record of success.
- Made architectural decisions measuring the impact of those decisions over time. You should be able to clearly articulate your technical opinions and lay out tradeoffs.
*Mercury is a fintech company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided through Choice Financial Group and Column N.A., Members FDIC.
Total Rewards
The total rewards package at Mercury includes base salary, equity (stock options/RSUs), 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. New hire offers are made based on a candidate’s experience, expertise, geographic location, and internal pay equity relative to peers.
Our target new hire base salary ranges for this role are the following:
US employees (any location): $200,700—$250,900 USD
Canadian employees (any location): $189,700—$237,100 CAD