Software Engineer - Stability

The year is 1969. The location: Stuttgart, West Germany. Engineers are pacing with strained expressions on their faces. They are looking over the Porsche 917, the company's latest attempt at a race car. It's not working properly. The car is one of the most powerful ever built. But drivers describe it as terrifyingly unstable… "a monster". Despite this, Porsche runs it in Le Mans to disastrous results. One of the cars crashes on lap one, killing its driver, John Woolfe. All other 917s break down in the race.

Enter John Wyer, a British race engineer, whom the factory calls upon for help. After a long day of testing, John recognizes a lack of smashed bugs on the rear wing and deduces that the wing is not working properly. The team modifies the design to be more upward swept and the 917K takes on a new winning character. It wins LeMans outright in 1970 and goes on to be the most successful race car design of the 70s. Stability, it turns out, was the missing ingredient.

Mercury is a company that prides itself in providing powerful banking* services. But without those services being reliable and stable, it will fail. The Stability team exists to help product engineers see those patterns of instability and remedy them. We champion and improve observability. We've helped define incident response. We have introduced and support robust background work processing. We monitor and build tooling around platform and database health. And with your help, we will explore how to make Mercury even more reliable.

As part of this role, you will:

• Write, test, debug, and ship quality code as part of our team initiatives
• Communicate with clarity about your work
• Own your tasks and keep them moving forward
• Work with project leads to understand implementation goals and give feedback on requirements
• Speak with product engineers to understand their use cases
• With direction, find ways to improve systems at Mercury

The ideal candidate for this role:

• Has 2 or more years of backend development experience on web-based systems
• Is persistent in the face of challenges
• Can balance tradeoffs and find creative solutions to accomplish goals
• Understands the workflows of fellow engineers and is empathetic toward their needs
• Is interested in interactions between systems
• Demonstrates an interest in growing their skillset as an engineer

If would be nice if you:

• Have experience working with Haskell or similar functional programming languages
• Have used PostgreSQL or another relational database

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): $149,600 - $158,400 USD
• Canadian employees (any location): CAD 136,100 - 149,700

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

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