Frontend Engineer - Design Systems

Canada, San Francisco + 2 more

About the role

<p>Mercury's Design Systems team helps product teams build interfaces that feel consistent, accessible, and carefully considered. We're hiring a Frontend Engineer to help evolve the shared components and patterns behind those experiences, making it easier for teams across Mercury to turn good ideas into well-crafted software.</p> <p>You'll work closely with designers and engineers to understand product needs, explore solutions, and carry improvements into the hands of the teams using them. This role is open to early-career and intermediate engineers. You'll build depth in frontend engineering and design systems through meaningful project ownership, with guidance from experienced teammates suited to your experience.</p> <p>Design systems will be your initial focus within

the team's broader Design Foundations work. As opportunities and interests align, you can also contribute to code-based prototyping and tools that help designers and AI agents work with Mercury's components. Strong AI fluency is part of how we build from the start.</p> <p><strong>As part of this role, you will:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Build shared components and patterns that make Mercury's interfaces better. You'll work in React and TypeScript, turning recurring product needs into flexible solutions that teams can use across different experiences.</li> <li>Partner with designers and product engineers to connect design intent with working software. Help evolve components and tokens across Figma and code, using feedback from real product work to improve the system.</li> <li>Improve the quality of the experiences built with our components. Consider how they look and behave for different users, bringing accessibility, thoughtful interactions, and reliable behavior into implementation and testing.</li> <li>Make the design system easier to use. Help teams adopt shared patterns and improve the examples, documentation, and workflows that let people build confidently with them.</li> <li>Use AI tools to explore approaches and move ideas into working code. Apply your judgment to what agents produce, test the results in context, and contribute useful approaches back to

the team.</li> </ul> <p><strong>What you'll bring:</strong></p> <p>We're interested in what you've built and how you think. Your experience may come from professional work, internships, coursework, open source, or personal projects.</p> <ul> <li>A foundation in React, TypeScript, HTML, and CSS, with experience building interfaces and the ability to explain the decisions behind your code.</li> <li>Care for visual craft and how people use software, including an interest in accessible interfaces and the details that make interactions feel right.</li> <li>Hands-on fluency with AI coding tools. You can provide useful context, evaluate and improve generated code, and verify that it works as intended.</li> <li>Ownership and a willingness to learn: you follow work through, communicate when you need help, and use feedback to improve your approach.</li> <li>Curiosity about reusable systems and the tradeoffs involved in serving different product needs with shared components.</li> <li>An interest in solving problems alongside designers and engineers, contributing ideas, and understanding the needs behind a request.</li> <li>Experience with design systems, prototyping, or developer tooling is a plus. You don't need to have held a design systems role to bring useful skills and ideas to this team.</li> </ul> <p>If this role interests you, we invite you to explore our public demo at <a href="https://demo.mercury.com/">demo.mercury.com</a>. </p> <p><em>*Mercury is a fintech company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided through Choice Financial Group and Column N.A., Members FDIC.</em></p> <p>Mercury values diversity & belonging and is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. All individuals seeking employment at Mercury are considered without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other legally protected characteristic. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations throughout the recruitment process for applicants with disabilities or special needs. If you need assistance, or an accommodation, please let your recruiter know once you are contacted about a role.</p> <p><span data-sheets-root="1">#LI-MC1</span></p><div class="content-pay-transparency"><div class="pay-input"><div class="description"><p><strong>Total Rewards</strong><br>The total rewards package at Mercury includes base salary, equity (stock options/RSUs), and

benefits.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>Our target new hire base salary ranges for this role are the following<strong>:</strong></p></div><div class="title">US employees (any location):</div><div class="pay-range"><span>$140,800</span><span class="divider">—</span><span>$158,400 USD</span></div></div><div class="pay-input"><div class="title">Canadian employees (any location):</div><div class="pay-range"><span>$115,700</span><span class="divider">—</span><span>$149,700 CAD</span></div></div></div>

About Mercury

Mercury is a financial technology company that provides digital banking and financial workflow tools primarily for startups and small businesses. Its platform combines business checking and savings accounts, payment processing, invoicing, bill pay, expense management, and cash flow monitoring within a single interface. Mercury works with partner banks to offer banking services and FDIC-insured deposit accounts while focusing on the software and operational experience for its customers. The company also provides corporate cards, treasury products, accounting integrations, and automation features designed to support day-to-day financial operations. In addition to serving startups, Mercury has expanded its offerings to include consumer banking products and broader financial management capabilities for growing businesses.

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Job details

Salary

$140,800 - $158,400

Location

Canada, San Francisco + 2 more

Company

NameMercury
IndustryAccounting
Team Size5

Funding

Total raised

$300M

Last stage

Growth

Investors

Sequoia Capital
Coatue
Andreessen Horowitz
CRV
Spark Capital

Founders

JZ

Jason Zhang

Co-founder & COO

Immad Akhund

Immad Akhund

Co-founder & CEO

LinkedIn
MT

Max Tagher

Co-founder

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02

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03

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