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Salary: USD 239,000 - 298,800 / annual
Mercury is a fintech platform providing banking, treasury, and financial workflow solutions for startups and technology companies. The Custody team builds the foundational systems that power Mercury's investment products—including ledgers, security master service, reconciliation, and operational tools that ensure customer assets are accurately accounted for.
You will lead the Custody engineering team through its next phase of growth and scale. Your responsibilities include:
• Lead, hire, and develop a team of senior engineers, providing thoughtful feedback and fostering a trusting, supportive environment.
• Own the team's technical strategy and roadmap, translating Mercury's investment ambitions into focused priorities and predictable delivery.
• Guide the design and evolution of core custody systems: cash and securities ledgers, security master service, position tracking, and reconciliation.
• Partner with product, investment operations, and compliance to translate business and regulatory requirements into well-designed systems, operational controls, and auditable workflows that balance correctness, scale, and maintainability.
• Collaborate with Product and Partnerships to align integrations, responsibilities, and technical roadmaps.
• Set a high bar for correctness, reliability, and incident response, balancing new capabilities with maintenance and improvement of critical systems.
This role requires deep expertise in financial infrastructure. You will work on systems that handle cash and securities movements, settlement, corporate actions, and multi-asset reconciliation across equities, fixed income, ETFs, and mutual funds. The role demands close collaboration with compliance and operations teams to ensure regulatory requirements translate into practical engineering decisions and effective controls.
**Requirements:**
• 3+ years of experience managing highly technical teams
• Direct experience building or operating RIA and broker-dealer custody systems at scale, including ledgers, security master service, cash and securities reconciliation, and money movement
• Understanding of the broker-dealer operating model and how responsibilities and data flow across introducing brokers, clearing firms, and custodians
• Experience working closely with compliance and operations teams, translating requirements into practical engineering decisions and effective controls
• Understanding of the lifecycle of securities and the implications of settlement and corporate actions for customer cash and positions across equities, fixed income, ETFs, and mutual funds
About Mercury
Fintech — banking, treasury, and financial workflow platform for startups and technology companies.
