Mercury
Tech / AI / Software
SeniorSoftwareEngineer-Risk(AI&Automation)
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“Senior Software Engineer - Risk (AI & Automation) at Mercury. Skills: AI Product Development, Agentic AI systems, intelligent automation, risk systems, AI-driven workflows. Drive AI Product Development in Risk. shape the architecture and implementation of AI-powered risk systems”
What You'll Achieve.
guide thousands of ambitious people safely through Mercury’s orbit every day; founders open bank accounts in delightful minutes, not days; never have to think about the complexity humming beneath the surface; power and automate our KYC Refresh, EDD, ODD, and compliance workflows; taking our operations to the next level of efficiency and scale; less manual toil, earlier risk detection, sharper decisions, and experiences that feel almost magical in their simplicity; software that protects millions of dollars, unlocks opportunities for founders around the world, and helps shape the future of banking
Industry & Context.
risk systems; turning messy, ambiguous signals into clear outcomes; compliance not as red tape, but as a fascinating systems problem at planetary scale; analyze tradeoffs; make critical decisions; make balanced decisions on tech debt; Approach problems with a product mindset; critical thinking
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
5+ years of software engineering experience, preferably in Payments or Risk, Agentic AI expertise—you’ve built and launched applied Agentic AI products that have had business impact, shipping them from 0→1 and scaling 1→10 in production environments, Proven success building large-scale distributed systems, ideally involving 3rd party integrations and decision automation, A mindset that balances urgency with craftsmanship: shipping fast, without cutting corners on quality engineering, A track record of raising the bar for quality and operational excellence, balancing shipping speed with technical excellence and observability, Creativity and adaptability — you think beyond the obvious and find solutions that move both product and business forward, communication and leadership skills—you can inspire other engineers and articulate tradeoffs to influence decisions across teams
Nice to Have
Experience with or curiosity about KYC, AML, risk, or compliance systems in financial services or fintech
What You'll Do.
Drive AI Product Development in Risk
shape the architecture and implementation of AI-powered risk systems
ambiguous signals into clear outcomes
Lead Projects End-to-End
Drive technical projects from concept to production across the stack
make critical decisions
deliver software that works today and is sustainable for tomorrow
and maintainable code
Establish patterns and best practices
ensuring long-term scalability and reliability
Design extensible platform systems
make balanced decisions on tech debt
plan careful rollouts
own the quality of your work through post-launch monitoring
Model a culture of operational excellence
holding a high bar for observability
and incident response
Approach problems with a product mindset
Coach engineers on your team by sharing patterns
and critical thinking
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Collaborate Across Functions; partner with Product, Design, Risk Strategy, Compliance, and Operations; translate evolving regulatory and operational needs into elegant, resilient software; push the frontier of what’s possible when modern AI meets thoughtfully designed systems; articulate tradeoffs to influence decisions across teams
Communication Scope
communication and leadership skills; inspire other engineers; articulate tradeoffs
Process & Methodology
Lead Projects End-to-End, Drive technical projects from concept to production across the stack, Define solutions, analyze tradeoffs, make critical decisions
Full Job Description
Every new customer who applies for a Mercury bank* account is like a new star igniting in the night sky. At first glance, it’s a single spark. But look closer, and a constellation emerges—identity and business verification, ownership and control checks, sanctions and adverse media screening, and fraud signals—all pulling on one another with invisible gravity. The Risk Engineering team is the navigation system for this universe. Our job is to guide thousands of ambitious people safely through Mercury’s orbit every day—each with its own trajectory, risk profile, and story. We operate at escape velocity: moving fast, making confident decisions, and protecting the system without slowing down the builders who rely on us. When we do our work well, founders open bank accounts in delightful minutes, not days—and never have to think about the complexity humming beneath the surface. Now we’re entering a new era. We’re building agentic AI systems that don’t just score risk, but reason about it—systems that can investigate, decide, escalate, and learn. These agents will help power and automate our KYC Refresh, EDD, ODD, and compliance workflows, taking our operations to the next level of efficiency and scale. The goal: less manual toil, earlier risk detection, sharper decisions, and experiences that feel almost magical in their simplicity. This is where you come in. We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer who is energized by the idea of bringing intelligent automation to life in real production systems. Someone who wants to design and build AI-driven workflows that can think in steps, adapt to new information, and orchestrate complex decisions across people, models, and services. Someone who sees compliance not as red tape, but as a fascinating systems problem at planetary scale. If you’re excited to build agentic AI that matters—software that protects millions of dollars, unlocks opportunities for founders around the world, and helps shape the future of banking—we’d love
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