Staff Software Engineer - Fraud

Full-timeCA$201k–CA$299k2026-11-03 → 2026-11-10

Core

Building intelligent, automated systems and operational tools for fraud prevention and risk management in business banking, enabling real-time scoring and decisioning.

Role type

Staff Software Engineer (Backend/Fraud Systems)

Builds

Highly available, low-latency backend systems for fraud prevention, ML data pipelines, and real-time model serving.

Domain

Fintech / Fraud Prevention / Risk Management

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Backend software development, System architecture, Real-time decisioning, ML pipeline integration, Cross-functional leadership, Technical strategy, Mentorship, Stakeholder management, Product mindset

Preferred skills

Haskell, Fintech experience, Fraud systems experience, Risk domain experience

Technologies

Haskell, ML frameworks, Backend frameworks

Responsibilities

Lead architecture and roadmap for core fraud prevention systems; Design and operate low-latency backend systems for real-time scoring; Partner with Data Science to productionize models and build ML pipelines; Mentor engineers and drive engineering best practices; Navigate and align multiple stakeholders on cross-team issues.

About Mercury

Mercury is on a mission to defy those expectations. We're a financial technology company that helps startups spend less time banking* and more time building. We believe that the key to our success revolves around thoughtful design — and we hold the craft of that design to an exceptionally high standard. We're looking for a Staff Brand Designer who sets that bar: someone whose eye is so precise, and whose execution is so considered, that the work around them gets better just by virtue of their presence.