Senior Software Engineer - Cards

San Francisco, CA · 1 week ago

$166,600 to $208,300 a year

About the job

As the story goes, in 1949 Frank McNamara finished dinner at a New York restaurant and found he'd left his wallet in another suit. His fix was a card that let members eat now and pay later. That card became Diners Club, widely credited as the first multipurpose charge card. It was a piece of cardboard and a promise: the restaurant trusted the card, the card trusted the member, and someone had to make sure the money actually moved. More than seventy-five years later, the promise hasn't changed, but the machinery has. When a Mercury customer taps their card, the request goes from the merchant's terminal through an acquirer and a card network to us. In a fraction of a second, we check the...