Engineering Manager, Fraud & Compliance

Mercor Alabaster

• $150K — $180K *
San Francisco, CA 94112In-Person
Enterprise Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
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Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of engineering management experience in high-growth settings
  • Proven ability to lead teams in ambiguous environments
  • Strong background in designing scalable systems
  • Experience with high-stakes systems like marketplaces or payments
  • Ability to communicate complex technical decisions effectively
  • Track record of building and scaling teams from scratch
  • Business acumen to connect engineering outcomes with marketplace value

Responsibilities

  • Lead end-to-end development of business-critical systems
  • Drive the design of products influencing marketplace dynamics
  • Ensure execution in high-ambiguity environments
  • Hire and mentor high-performing engineering teams
  • Collaborate cross-functionally to align engineering work with business impact
  • Introduce necessary structure to foster scalable operations
  • Contribute to technical design and code for critical systems

Benefits

  • Equity ownership in a high-growth, profitable company
  • Relocation support to San Francisco, NYC, or London
  • Housing support near the office
  • Daily meal support
  • Premium fitness membership (Equinox)
  • Comprehensive health insurance
Full Job Description
What You'll Do
  • Lead and grow a high-performing team of engineers responsible for fraud detection, identity verification, abuse prevention, and platform integrity
  • Define and execute Mercor's fraud and compliance engineering roadmap in partnership with product, operations, and company leadership
  • Build systems that generate fraud signals, evaluate risk, make automated decisions, and continuously improve through human review and feedback loops
  • Drive the development of AI-powered detection systems, including LLM-based decision engines, scoring models, and review workflows
  • Establish rigorous evaluation frameworks to measure detection performance, confidence calibration, false positive/negative tradeoffs, and business impact
  • Recruit exceptional engineers and raise the talent bar across the organization
  • Partner closely with product, operations, and company leadership
  • Drive engineering excellence, velocity, and operational rigor in an adversarial, fast-moving domain

Basic Qualifications
  • 5+ years of backend software engineering experience building and operating production systems at scale
  • 3+ years of engineering management experience leading high-performing software engineering teams
  • Experience leading teams through periods of significant scale, ambiguity, or rapid change, with clear examples of the impact you've personally driven


Nice-to Have Qualifications
  • 2+ years delivering infrastructure for fraud, trust & safety, risk, identity, payments, abuse prevention, or other adversarial domains
  • 2+ years working with machine learning, AI systems, decision engines, or risk-scoring platforms


Benefits
  • Generous equity, vested over 4 years
  • Up to $15K relocation bonus
  • $10K housing bonus (if you live within 0.5 miles of the office)
  • $1,500/month meals stipend
  • Free Equinox membership
  • $200/month laundry reimbursement
  • $200/month personal wellness reimbursement
  • Health, Dental, and Vision insurance
* Ladders Estimates

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