Engineering Manager - Mercury Accounting

Businesses on Mercury are leveraging their financial insights to inform consequential decisions that drive their company forward. Fragmented financial data, inaccuracies, and delayed accounting reports result in these businesses making decisions based on processed historical data and not on the state of their business today. For accountants, this adds growing pressure to reconcile and review, resulting in less time spent providing exceptional service to their clients.

Our Accounting product engineering team exists to close this gap by enabling real-time insights for businesses that use Mercury. We do this by allowing businesses to connect their other financial software to Mercury, configure auto-categorization, and identify outliers that may lead to inaccuracies. By closing the books in real-time, businesses get a live picture of their finances, not a lagging one.

We’re looking for an engineering leader who is excited to lead their team to execute on our vision for real-time accounting and own a critical part of Mercury’s product growth.

As part of this role, you will:

• Lead a team of 6+ exceptional software engineers, growing the team through performance management, mentorship, and hiring.


• Contribute to a team culture that aligns to Mercury’s values.


• Help define technical architecture for ingesting financial data from hundreds of sources and streaming them to Mercury’s accounting service.


• Work closely with designers, product leaders, and other cross-functional stakeholders to shape product strategy and execute on the Accounting team roadmap.


• Collaborate with other engineering teams on overlapping work, optimizing for product cohesion and simplicity over strict division of responsibility.

The ideal candidate for the role:

• Has 3+ years of engineering management leading full-stack product engineering teams, especially teams that have leveraged AI to build software.


• 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. Bonus points if you have experience in both monolithic and microservice architectures.


• Has a strong sense of technical and product ownership and actively seeks responsibility – our engineers often act as product owners on small/medium projects, and we want someone who’s excited to help shape the future of our accounting products; previous experience in fintech/accounting or building consumer-facing AI products is a nice-to-have.


• Is comfortable driving discussions in areas with ambiguous ownership, approaches them with empathy, and prioritizes reaching outcomes. Our work overlaps with many other teams – you’ll have a lot of autonomy in this role and are expected to use it to seek out ways to have an impact.

If this role interests you, we invite you to explore our public demo at demo.mercury.com.  

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): $200,700 - $250,900


• Canadian employees (any location): CAD $189,700 - $237,100

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.

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