Senior Frontend Engineer - Payments

Overview

Locations : San Francisco, CA; New York, NY; Portland, OR; or Remote within Canada or United States

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.

What you'll do

• 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.

Ideal candidate

Compensation and benefits

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 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.

US employees (any location) : $200,700 – $250,900

Canadian employees (any location) : CAD 189,700 – 237,100

Company and compliance

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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