Mercury · 1 month ago
Senior Engineering Manager - Release Engineering
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level
$239K/yr - $299K/yr
7+ years expMercury is a financial technology company that focuses on providing a seamless release engineering process for its software. They are seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a team responsible for CI/CD infrastructure, build systems, and deployment automation, ensuring operational excellence and reliability in software delivery.
AccountingBankingPaymentsFinanceFinTechCredit CardsFinancial Services
Responsibilities
Lead and grow a team of four engineers focused on CI/CD infrastructure, build systems, deployment automation, and developer tooling
Create a strong culture of operational excellence, with measurable improvements to pipeline reliability, build times, and deployment confidence
Own Mercury's release pipeline end-to-end — from pull request merge to production — ensuring it is fast, reliable, observable, and secure
Drive the strategy and execution for improving build performance, test reliability, deployment safety (canaries, feature flags, rollbacks), and developer velocity
Partner closely with Platform, Security, and Product Engineering teams to design and deliver systems that meet the demands of a rapidly scaling fintech
Establish and evangelize release engineering best practices across Mercury's engineering org — defining standards for deployment frequency, change failure rate, and MTTR
Balance long-term platform investments with the day-to-day reliability needs of 400+ engineers shipping code every day
Build and maintain tooling that enforces compliance checkpoints and audit trails as part of the release pipeline — without slowing teams down
Hire, mentor, and retain top-tier engineers; help them grow into technical leads and raise the overall bar for the team
Qualification
Required
7+ years of software engineering experience, including 4+ years managing engineering teams in high-growth or high-availability environments
Deep hands-on experience with CI/CD systems (e.g., Buildkite, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, CircleCI) and the infrastructure that supports them
Strong background in build systems (Bazel, Buck2), containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Pulumi, or similar)
A track record of meaningfully improving release velocity and reliability — you measure what matters and use data to drive decisions
Experience operating in regulated or security-sensitive environments, ideally fintech, payments, or banking
Excellent cross-functional communication skills — you can translate between engineering depth and business impact, and you partner effectively with Security, Compliance, and Product leaders
A pragmatic philosophy: you believe release infrastructure should be a force multiplier for product engineers, not a bureaucratic hurdle
The ability to attract, develop, and retain exceptional talent — you take hiring and team development seriously
Company
Mercury
Mercury provides digital banking and financial tools tailored for startups and modern businesses.
1001-5000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Distribution of Different Job Fields Receiving Sponsorship
47%
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Engineering and Development
Product Management
Accounting and Finance
Legal and Compliance
Trends of Total Sponsorships
*2026 (3)
2025 (14)
2024 (6)
2023 (8)
2022 (1)
2021 (1)
2020 (1)
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$657.13MKey Investors
TCVSequoia CapitalCoatue
2026-05-20Series D· $200M
2025-03-26Series C· $300M
2025-03-26Secondary Market
Leadership Team
Immad Akhund
CEO & Founder
Jon Auxier
CEO & President @ Mercury Bank, N.A. (in organization)
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