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[Remote] Staff Software Engineer - Fraud

Worldwide Salaried Open

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Mercury is a fintech company that focuses on building intelligent systems for business banking. They are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead the development of core systems for fraud prevention, ensuring a safe and delightful experience for their clients.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the architecture, implementation, and long-term roadmap for core systems which support multiple fraud prevention use cases
  • Own the end-to-end delivery of large cross-function projects, translating ambiguous high impact problems into strategy and execution, make pragmatic tradeoffs, and drive teams to measurable outcomes
  • Design, build, and operate highly available, low-latency, backend systems that enable real-time scoring and decisioning for fraud prevention
  • Partner with Data Science and ML teams to productionize models, build reliable ML data pipelines, and enable real-time model serving
  • Establish and elevate department level best practices, review designs, drive engineering quality, and act as a trusted advisor on architectural tradeoffs
  • Mentor and grow engineers, documenting learnings and sharing technical direction through writing, 1:1s, and team meetings
  • Navigate and influence multiple stakeholders, help align teams, communicate tradeoffs to technical and non-technical partners, and independently resolve cross team issues

Skills

  • 7-10+ years of software development experience, with a strong focus on the backend, with a knowledge of or excitement to learn Haskell
  • Experience as a technical lead making architectural decisions in the past and seen the impact of those decisions over time
  • Ability to clearly articulate technical opinions and lay out tradeoffs
  • Passionately product-minded with experience building and shipping new products balancing reliability and velocity
  • Comfortable driving discussions in areas with ambiguous ownership, approaching them with empathy, and delighting in getting outcomes
  • Ridiculously helpful, taking initiative to make coworkers' lives easier by investing time to mentor and proactively share knowledge and learnings through writings, 1:1s, and team meetings
  • Experience in fintech, fraud systems, or the broader risk domain

Benefits

  • Base salary
  • Equity (stock options)
  • Benefits

Company Overview

  • Mercury provides digital banking and financial tools tailored for startups and modern businesses. It was founded in 2017, and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA, with a workforce of 1001-5000 employees. Its website is https://mercury.com.
  • Company H1B Sponsorship

  • Mercury has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 2 in 2026, 14 in 2025, 6 in 2024, 8 in 2023, 1 in 2022, 1 in 2021, 1 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.
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