As a Member of Technical Staff of talent experience, you'll own the shared backend architecture that underpins every user journey for talent network at Mercor
Mercor's products—talent matching, assessment, expert workflows—are growing faster than any single team can architect for. You'll define the technical direction of the systems they all depend on: core services, data models, APIs, and infrastructure patterns that must scale with a network of tens of thousands of experts and the demands of the world's leading AI labs. You'll set the standards that dozens of engineers build on, pay down the architectural decisions that no longer fit, and make the ones that will still be right three years from now
This is a hands-on technical leadership role, not a management role. You'll write code, review the designs that matter most, and act as the connective tissue between product teams—partnering directly with engineering leadership to shape how the organization builds
Own the architecture of Mercor's shared backend systems—core services, data models, APIs, and cross-product infrastructure
Define and drive the long-term technical strategy for backend architecture across the organization
Design systems for scale, reliability, and evolvability, and lead the highest-stakes technical decisions and design reviews
Identify and pay down architectural debt that slows product teams, and lead complex cross-team migrations
Establish backend engineering standards, patterns, and best practices adopted across all product teams
Stay hands-on: prototype critical systems, ship production code, and unblock teams on their hardest technical problems
Mentor senior engineers and raise the technical bar across the engineering organization
Partner with engineering and product leadership on build-vs-buy decisions, platform investments, and technical hiring