Senior Software Engineer - Ecommerce - Mercury

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At Mercury, we are committed to crafting an exceptional banking experience for startups. Our team is passionately focused on ensuring our product not only meets but anticipates the needs of our customers. In this role, you will play a key part in contributing to the building of Mercury’s focus on providing easy to use financial services to our ecommerce customers. As well as work on greenfield projects related to future feature launches tied to the growth of the Mercury! 

Here are some things you’ll do on the job:

• Build a suite of products designed to meet the needs of our ecommerce customers
• Work with a large amount of financial data, ensuring it is processed and analyzed for underwriting purposes
• Collaborate with a team of experienced engineers, working closely together to achieve our goals and solve our customer’s problems
• Work autonomously and be given a large amount of trust to accomplish our team’s goals

The ideal candidate for the role:

• Is comfortable working with greenfield products focused on rapid growth
• 3-5 years of experience in a similar role
• Extensive experience working with backend languages, with an overall focus on backend work
• Experience working in fintech or banking related space
• Has a strong product mindset and ownership allowing them to be creative in their problem solving
• Is someone who prefers to work closely with a team rather than in isolation

We encourage you to try our demo site if you’re interested in applying for the role.

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. 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): $173,600 - $204,200
• Canadian employees (any location): CAD $158,000 - $185,800

Mercury is a financial technology company, not a bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group and Evolve Bank & Trust, Members FDIC.

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