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Staff Software Engineer - Fraud

Mercury· Engineering
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Hybrid (Remote within Canada or United States)$200.7k - $298.8kfull-timePosted 6mo ago

About the role

Staff Software Engineer to contribute with building systems and tools for fraud prevention, from application approvals to due diligence, ensuring safe and delightful onboarding for Mercury customers.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the architecture, implementation, and long-term roadmap for core systems which support multiple fraud prevention use cases.
  • Own the end-to-end delivery of large cross-function projects, translating ambiguous high impact problems into strategy and execution, make pragmatic tradeoffs, and drive teams to measurable outcomes.
  • Design, build, and operate highly available, low-latency, backend systems that enable real-time scoring and decisioning for fraud prevention.
  • Partner with Data Science and ML teams to productionize models, build reliable ML data pipelines, and enable real-time model serving.
  • Establish and elevate department level best practices, review designs, drive engineering quality, and act as a trusted advisor on architectural tradeoffs.
  • Mentor and grow engineers, documenting learnings and sharing technical direction through writing, 1:1s, and team meetings
  • Navigate and influence multiple stakeholders, help align teams, communicate tradeoffs to technical and non-technical partners, and independently resolve cross team issues.

Qualifications

  • 7-10+ years of software development experience, backend focus, knowledge of or willingness to learn Haskell.
  • Experience as an technical lead making architectural decisions and articulating tradeoffs.
  • Product-minded with experience shipping new products balancing reliability and velocity.
  • Comfort with owning areas with ambiguous ownership and driving for outcomes with autonomy.
  • Mentor mindset with initiative to share knowledge via writings, 1:1s, and team meetings.
  • Experience in fintech, fraud systems, or risk domain is a strong plus.

Skills

Required:Backend engineeringArchitectural leadershipcollaboration with Data Science / ML
Nice to have:Haskell

Benefits

  • Base salary, equity (stock options/RSUs), and benefits.
Last updated Oct 7, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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