Before 1965, it was extremely difficult and time-consuming to analyze complicated signals, like radio or images. You could solve it, but you had to throw a ton of compute at it. That all changed with the invention of the Fast Fourier transform, which could efficiently break that signal down into the frequencies that are a part of it. The Risk Onboarding team is working on efficiently reviewing customers’ applications without compromising on quality. We are the front line of defense for preventing money laundering and financial crimes, building systems to verify that someone is who they say they are and that we are allowed to do business with them.
At Mercury, we are committed to crafting an exceptional banking* experience for startups. Our team is passionately focused on ensuring our products create a safe environment that meets the needs of our customers, administrators, and regulators.
*Mercury is a fintech company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided through Choice Financial Group and Column N.A., Members FDIC.
As part of this role, you will:
- Partner with data science & engineering teams to design and deploy ML & Gen AI microservices, primarily focusing on automating reviews
- Work with a full-stack engineering team to embed these services into the overall review experience, including human in the loop, escalations, and feeding human decisions back into the service
- Implement testing, observability, alerting, and disaster recovery for all services
- Implement tracing, performance, and regression testing
- Feel a strong sense of product ownership and actively seek responsibility – we often self-organize on small/medium projects, and we want someone who’s excited to help shape and build Mercury’s future
The ideal candidate for the role has:
- 7+ years of experience in roles like machine learning engineering, data engineering, backend software engineering, and/or devops
- Expertise with:
- A full modern data stack: Snowflake, dbt, Fivetran, Airbyte, Dagster, Airflow
- SQL, dbt, Python
- OLAP / OLTP data modelling and architecture
- Key-value stores: Redis, dynamoDB, or equivalent
- Streaming / real-time data pipelines: Kinesis, Kafka, Redpanda
- API frameworks: FastAPI, Flask, etc.
- Production ML Service experience
- Working across full-stack development environment, with experience transferable to Haskell, React, and TypeScript