Senior Software Engineering Educator

Mercury's Engineering Training team is seeking a Senior Software Engineering Educator to drive excellence in senior software engineering. This role focuses on establishing high-skill mentorship across the department, expanding into IC leadership growth areas like project leadership and system design. The educator will balance pragmatic execution with thoughtful program design, ensuring adoption of training initiatives and incorporating AI best practices. The ideal candidate has 5+ years of software development and mentorship experience in a startup environment.

Must Have

• Stand up a mentorship-focused initiative for Senior Software Engineers
• Incorporate AI best practices into coaching and materials
• Perform operational work for adoption: scheduling, facilitation, follow-ups, and iteration
• Collaborate with training team and cross-functional partners for skill acquisition
• 5+ years of shipping quality software into production
• Mentoring peer software engineers in a start-up environment
• Communicate clearly and give actionable, direct, kind feedback
• Enjoy turning fuzzy goals into simple, repeatable programs

Good to Have

• Know when to lean into 1:1 sessions or organizational legwork to drive adoption or improve learning outcomes
• Model craftsmanship and healthy engineering habits, including thoughtful AI usage
• Love turning passive, explanatory content into active, exercise-centric learning resources

Perks & Benefits

• Competitive base salary
• Equity (stock options)
• Benefits
• Diversity & belonging focus
• Reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities or special needs

Teaching hospitals operate on a model that's remained largely unchanged for over a century: residents learn medicine not through lectures alone, but through supervised practice alongside attending physicians who've seen thousands of cases. The attending physician doesn't just demonstrate technique—they narrate their clinical reasoning, point out subtle patterns the resident would miss, and know when to let the resident struggle versus when to intervene. This model works because medicine recognized early that expertise requires both knowledge transfer and judgment development, and judgment only develops through guided repetition. The best teaching hospitals obsess over the quality of this supervision, understanding that a resident's third year is shaped entirely by whether their attending physicians treat teaching as real work or an afterthought.

Our Engineering Training team is looking for a software engineer and educator who cares deeply about skill acquisition, mentorship, and high quality leadership. You balance pragmatic execution with thoughtful program design, and you’re comfortable doing the legwork to drive adoption. This is a unique opportunity to help define and drive what it means to be an excellent senior software engineer at Mercury. Our first focus is driving high-skill mentorship across the department. From there, we want to expand into other IC leadership growth areas like project leadership and system design.

*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:

• Stand up a mentorship-focused initiative for Senior Software Engineers, from pilot to broader rollout
• Incorporate AI best practices into coaching and materials so AI usage strengthens, not erodes, engineering excellence
• Do the operational work that drives adoption: scheduling, facilitation, follow-ups, and iteration based on feedback
• Collaborate closely with training team members and cross-functional partners to drive broader skill acquisition efforts

The ideal candidate for this role:

• Has 5+ years of shipping quality software into production while mentoring peer software engineers in a start-up environment
• Communicates clearly and gives actionable, direct, kind feedback
• Enjoys turning fuzzy goals into simple, repeatable programs
• Knows when to lean into 1:1 sessions or organizational legwork to drive adoption or improve learning outcomes
• Models a care of craftsmanship and healthy engineering habits, including thoughtful AI usage
• Loves turning passive, explanatory content into active, exercise-centric learning resources

If this role interests you, we invite you to explore our public demo at demo.mercury.com and read mercury.com/blog/escalating-esqueleto from our training team.

The total rewards package at Mercury includes base salary, equity (stock options), and benefits. Our salary and equity ranges are highly competitive within the SaaS and fintech industry and are updated regularly using the most reliable compensation survey data for our industry. New hire offers are made based on a candidate’s experience, expertise, geographic location, and internal pay equity relative to peers.

Our target new hire base salary ranges for this role are the following:

• US employees (any location): $166,600 - $208,300
• Canadian employees (any location): CAD 157,400 - 196,800

Mercury values diversity & belonging and is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. All individuals seeking employment at Mercury are considered without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other legally protected characteristic. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations throughout the recruitment process for applicants with disabilities or special needs. If you need assistance, or an accommodation, please let your recruiter know once you are contacted about a role.

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