Mercury
Senior Backend Engineer- Product
Remote Backend Engineering role with clear candidate location fit.
PostedJul 14, 2026
Eligible countries1 accepted country
Seniority signalSenior
Work settingRemote
Accepted candidate locations
Canada
Role overview
Senior Backend Engineer- Product
Requirements and responsibilities
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As part of this role, you will:
- Feel a strong sense of product ownership and actively seek responsibility – we often self-organize on small/medium projects, and we want someone excited to help shape and build Mercury’s future.
- Work in an autonomous environment on a close-knit team, with a “startup within a startup” feel.
- Partner closely with designers and product leaders to ship lovable experiences. We want to transcend the status quo for banking and fintech software, and many of our customers are startups and appreciate our slick, magical designs.
- Join a team of experienced product engineers within one of our Mercury product groups such as Banking, Experiences, Expansion, or Risk.
The ideal candidate for the role:
- Has 3-7 years of backend development experience.
- Knowledge of or excitement to learn Haskell, and proficiency in SQL.
- Empathizes with users and can channel their perspective to build lovable products.
- Has made architectural decisions in the past and measured the impact of those decisions over time. You should be able to clearly articulate your technical opinions and lay out tradeoffs.
- Actively incorporates AI tools into their workflow and is excited about leveraging them to amplify their impact — whether that's accelerating development, improving code quality, or finding creative solutions to hard problems.
- Communicates and collaborates effectively with peers and cross-functional counterparts.
The ideal candidate for the role:
- US employees (any location): $166,600 - $208,300
- Canadian employees (any location): CAD 157,400 - 196,800
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