Senior Frontend Engineer - Payments

Since the dawn of aviation, pilots have faced the constant challenge of air resistance, much like sailors navigating the friction of water. Amidst this relentless struggle, the trim tab emerges as an ingenious yet understated marvel. Just as the wheel revolutionized transportation by easing movement over land, the trim tab simplifies flight, allowing for smoother navigation through the skies. It embodies the elegance of simplicity in engineering, transforming the demanding task of controlling an aircraft into a more graceful and manageable endeavor. 

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.

This is a unique opportunity to shape a greenfield product from its earliest stages. You’ll design for founders, operators, and finance teams who expect intuitive software, seamless integrations, and automation that eliminates busywork. With strong demand from our customers and a large market opportunity ahead, this product has the potential to become one of Mercury’s biggest bets—and you’ll play a key role in making it real.

As part of this role, you will:

• Feel a strong sense of ownership -  driving the product from early concepts to launch and beyond.
• Drive architectural decisions and define the technical direction, while fostering alignment across the team and mentoring engineers toward those goals.
• Collaborate closely with product managers, designers, and backend engineers to create intuitive, lovable experiences.
• Build core functionality in React + TypeScript, ensuring the product is performant, maintainable, and scalable.
• Mentor and support more junior engineers on the team, raising the bar for technical excellence.
• Champion a product-focused approach: keeping the user experience front and center in every decision.

The ideal candidate for the role:

• Has 7-10+ years of frontend development experience, with strong expertise in TypeScript and React.
• Is product-minded, with a track record of building and shipping successful products.
• Thrives in ambiguity and is excited by the opportunity to build a product from the ground up.
• Can balance speed and quality, making smart tradeoffs in the face of competing priorities.
• Enjoys mentoring and leveling up teammates, and takes initiative to make coworkers’ lives easier.
• Communicates clearly, collaborates effectively across functions, and seeks out opportunities to have outsized impact.

If this role interests you, we invite you to explore our public demo at demo.mercury.com to get a sense of the design standards we hold ourselves to.

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): $200,700 – $250,900
• Canadian employees (any location): CAD 189,700 – 237,100

We use Covey as part of our hiring and / or promotional process for jobs in NYC and certain features may qualify it as an AEDT. As part of the evaluation process we provide Covey with job requirements and candidate submitted applications. We began using Covey Scout for Inbound on January 22, 2024. Please see the independent bias audit report covering our use of Covey here.

Mercury is a financial technology company, not a bank. Banking services provided through Choice Financial Group, Column N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust; Members FDIC.

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