Mercury

Banking and Financial Services Platform — Built for Startups and Scaling Companies

The consensus on Mercury: Choose Mercury if you want product ownership, fast growth, and to build banking infrastructure for startups — but expect growing pains and occasionally intense workloads.

2019
Founded
San Francisco, CA
HQ (Remote-Friendly)
~1,300
Employees
$3.5B
Valuation (2025)
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Culture Overview

What it's really like to work at Mercury

Founded in 2019 by Immad Akhund and Jason Zhang, Mercury has quickly become the go-to banking platform for startups and tech companies. Great Place to Work certified, Mercury emphasizes a product-first mindset where engineers have genuine autonomy and ownership over meaningful scope. The team has grown rapidly from 850 to 1,300+ employees, backed by a $300M Series C led by Sequoia. With 85% positive business outlook and smart, motivated teammates, Mercury is a fast-growing fintech where engineers build the financial infrastructure powering the startup ecosystem.

Product Impact Engineering-Driven Ship Fast Learning & Growth Equity & Ownership Wears Many Hats
Glassdoor Ratings

Mercury Glassdoor Ratings & Employee Reviews

4.3
Overall Glassdoor Score
Based on 112 reviews
Culture & Values 3.9
Compensation & Benefits 4.0
Senior Management 3.8
Career Opportunities 3.9
Work-Life Balance 3.8
Overall Rating 4.3
79% Recommend to a Friend
85% CEO Approval (Immad Akhund)
Employee Review Themes

Working at Mercury: Pros & Cons

✓ What employees love

  • ✓ Great Place to Work certified — strong talent density with smart, motivated teammates
  • ✓ Genuine autonomy and ownership — product-first mindset with meaningful scope for engineers
  • ✓ 85% positive business outlook — well-funded ($3.5B valuation) and growing rapidly
  • ✓ Competitive compensation and benefits with strong equity packages
  • ✓ Build financial infrastructure used by thousands of startups and scaling companies

✗ What could be better

  • ✗ Still figuring out how to scale processes — expect ambiguity and shifting priorities during growth
  • ✗ Work-life balance rated 3.8/5 — periods of higher intensity during rapid scaling phases
  • ✗ Fast growth from 850 to 1,300+ means some organizational growing pains
  • ✗ Some inconsistency in management quality as the company scales quickly
Engineering Culture

How the engineering team works

Tech Stack

Ruby on Rails TypeScript React PostgreSQL Kubernetes AWS

Open Source & Research

Active in financial technology standards and API design best practices.

Engineering Blog

Covers fintech infrastructure, API design, and scaling challenges. Read the blog →

Team Structure

Cross-functional product teams with strong engineering ownership. Engineers work closely with product and design to ship features that directly impact startup founders.

Open Positions

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Community Sentiment

What the community says about Mercury

Mixed Sentiment 5 mentions from Hacker News & Reddit · Updated 2026-04-10
“A lot of folks in the current administration have links:> The airplane deal was signed off by Attorney General Pam Bondi. She used to work at a Washington, D.C.”
Hacker News throw0101d · 2025-05-15 View thread →
“This reminds me so much of present-day generative AI criticisms.> “These innovations were sometimes misguided, occasionally obsessive, periodically dangerous, and perpetually fascinating,” [Burgess writes]> Susan Sontag once called [them] “the clever, the wealthy, and the...”
Hacker News echelon · 2025-07-25 View thread →
“How about Kombucha? Vanilla extract? Sourdough bread? Mouth wash? Oral medicines? There are more sources to alcohol than the bar, including many incidental sources we don’t think about and happily feed to children as soon as they can handle solid foods.”
Hacker News Moto7451 · 2025-07-20 View thread →
“> For rites, Tacitus mentions that Mercury receives animal and human sacrifices while other deities only get animals.Right, but as the text I quoted earlier pointed out: "Of course, it has already been shown by Karl Helm that this was a historical trope copied from...”
Hacker News eesmith · 2025-06-23 View thread →

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