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Original Job Post

Mercury · 4 days ago

Senior Software Engineer - Backend Developer

United States

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level

$203K/yr - $239K/yr

3+ years exp

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Responsibilities

Instrument the software development life cycle, ensuring we have effective quantitative and qualitative ways of understanding our engineers’ speed, quality, and enjoyment of their work.

Use a product-centric approach to improving the effectiveness of our backend engineers through the introduction of novel tools and methodologies.

Create patches for, and contribute upstream to popular open source projects, such as GHC, GHCi, Persistent, and Nixpkgs

Create novel solutions and tooling to keep developers in the world’s largest Haskell codebase productive as we scale, often open sourcing these tools where possible

Embed with product teams to dog food our tooling, and to gain firsthand experience experience from working to deliver features for Mercury’s customers

Qualification

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Backend DevelopmentProblem-SolvingEmpathyRespectPlatform Teams SupportHaskellFunctional LanguagesNixOpen Source LibrariesUpstream Patches

Required

3+ years of experience in backend development

Passion for enabling other engineers

Receptive towards both positive and critical feedback from users

Ability to navigate and own ambiguous problem domains

Thoughtful engineer who treats others with respect and empathy

Preferred

2+ years of experience on platform teams supporting hundreds of engineers

Deep experience with Haskell or other purely functional languages

Experience working with Nix, NixOs, Nix Packages, etc.

Experience working with open source libraries and contributing upstream patches

Company

Mercury

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Mercury offers FDIC-insured accounts, virtual & physical debit cards, currency exchange, domestic, and international wires.

Founded in 2017

San Francisco, California, USA

501-1,000 employees

https://mercury.com

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