When the Space Shuttle approached the International Space Station, two vehicles built by different teams, in different countries, with fundamentally different engineering philosophies and systems, had to connect perfectly. The Rendezvous, Proximity Operations, and Docking (RPOD) subsystems were engineered to handle complex mismatches such as different power systems, communication protocols, and technical architectures. Get it wrong, and you have a very expensive and potentially catastrophic problem in low Earth orbit.
Mercury announced on December 19, 2025 that we submitted an application to the OCC for a national bank charter and applied for FDIC deposit insurance. On April 27, 2026, Mercury announced conditional approval. In other words, Mercury has the universe’s cosmic blessing to build a bank, and we are full speed ahead. As part of this work, we will be connecting our modern, product-focused engineering systems to enterprise core banking systems and payment networks built in a different era, with different assumptions and different interfaces. Mercury’s Banking* Integration Platform team is like NASA’s RPOD team, building our integration subsystems... Click Apply to read the full job description.