Senior Engineering Manager - Backend Developer User Experience

As the Senior Engineering Manager for Backend DUX, you'll lead a team of incredibly talented engineers in creating a developer ecosystem which delivers speed, quality, and enjoyment for Mercury's 200+ engineers. Mercury's primary backend language is Haskell, and your team is comprised of industry recognized thought leaders in that community. You'll report to the Director of Stability, Infrastructure, and Developer UX, work alongside other platform teams whose overarching mission is to achieve startup-like developer effectiveness at scale. In this role, you'll be responsible for: Instrumenting the SDLC, ensuring we have effective quantitative and qualitative ways of understanding our engineers’ speed, quality, and enjoyment of their work. Adopting and evangelizing a product-centric approach to improving the effectiveness of our backend engineers through the introducing of novel tools and methodologies. Guiding the organization through adoption of solutions, and championing their integration across Mercury’s broader engineering team, and graceful sunsetting of legacy solutions we wish to move past. Cultivating a trusting, psychologically safe, and challenging culture on your team. Working with other Infrastructure, Stability, and Developer Experience leaders, Product Management, and other stakeholder teams on setting the long term vision for and defining what the software development journey looks like at Mercury.