About the role
<p>In 1965, an engineer in Scotland was given a mundane task with a tricky problem to it - banks wanted to close on Saturdays and still serve customers, but they didn’t know how to solve authentication of the right user. James Goodfellow, working at Smiths Industries, uncovered the insight that you needed something you have (a card) and something you know (a PIN). Because someone told him they could only remember 4 digits instead of his proposed 6, today over 3 million ATMs use a card+4 digit PIN over 60 years later.&nbsp;</p> <p>Like the ATM, Mercury is building technology that pushes forward financial interfaces for the long term. Command is Mercury's LLM-powered financial assistant, launched to all customers in June 2026. It lets users understand their finances and take action in plain language, from asking about cash flow to sending payments, issuing cards, and managing invoices. With the product now in customers' hands, the work is to evolve it, extend its capabilities, and find new ways to leverage LLMs to give Mercury customers a more powerful banking* experience.</p> <h3><strong>
What You'll Do:</strong></h3> <ul> <li>Ship new capabilities users love</li> <li>Feel a strong sense of product ownership and actively seek responsibility – help design and ship new Command skills</li> <li>Partner with product and compliance teams to define what "working correctly" means for each new capability, then build the tests that prove it</li> <li>Join a small but mighty team of experienced product and AI engineers building the future of Mercury</li> <li>This list is illustrative. Command is a product in motion and priorities will shift as we learn. The right person should be comfortable working in ambiguity, in a scrappy startup environment</li> </ul> <h3><strong>The Ideal Candidate:</strong></h3> <ul> <li>Has 1-4 years of backend or full-stack development experience, with knowledge of or excitement to learn Haskell, React, TypeScript, and Redux</li> <li>Experience building LLM powered products</li> <li>A builder who is passionately product-minded and has experience building and shipping new products</li> <li>Empathizes with users and can channel their perspective to build lovable products</li> <li>Can balance tradeoffs and find creative solutions to accomplish goals</li> <li>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</li> </ul> <p>If this role interests you, we invite you to explore our public demo at <a href="http://demo.mercury.com">demo.mercury.com</a>.</p> <p>Mercury values diversity &amp; 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>#LI-RA1</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>$122,400</span><span class="divider">&mdash;</span><span>$176,000 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">&mdash;</span><span>$166,399 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
$122,400 - $176,000
Location
Canada, San Francisco + 2 more
Funding
Total raised
$300M
Last stage
Growth
Investors
Founders
What happens next.
No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.
Confirm the fit
A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.
I pitch you to the company
I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.
A meeting lands on your calendar
If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.
