Mercor
Payments Engineer
About this role
Mercor is seeking a Payments Engineer to strengthen and scale its payments platform, focusing on creating robust financial infrastructure to support rapid growth. This role involves improving system observability, reliability, and automation in payment processes critical to the company's marketplace operations.
What you'll do
- Enhance flow-level observability across payment processes
- Engineer reliability for distributed payment systems
- Implement monitoring for financial primitives
- Automate treasury and payout workflows
- Redesign systems based on root-cause analysis
- Develop operational ledger and reconciliation pipelines
What they're looking for
- 5+ years in scalable backend systems
- Experience in payments or fintech
- Strong operational mindset
- System-level thinking
- Automation expertise
- Reliability engineering
- Financial infrastructure knowledge
Benefits
- In-person work environment
- Competitive salary
- Opportunity to build impactful infrastructure
- Work with leading AI labs
- Impactful role in a growing company
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Mercor
Mercor builds a marketplace platform connecting expert talent to AI opportunities, supported by identity infrastructure, matching algorithms, and internal tools for data management. The company is hiring Software Engineers, Machine Learning Engineers, Fullstack Engineers, and Security Engineers to develop backend systems, ML models, cloud infrastructure, and distributed platforms.
- Website
- mercor.io
Likely interview questions
- Walk us through a time you redesigned a payment or financial system to handle a significant scale increase. What were the critical failure modes you anticipated, and how did you address them?
- Describe your experience building observability and monitoring for distributed financial systems. How do you ensure end-to-end visibility across payment flows?