Soham Mukherjee

CEO

Kolkata, West Bengal, India5 yrs 6 mos experience

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Key Highlights

Led teams to scale products to millions of users.
Expert in building resilient payment infrastructures.
Strong background in fintech and SaaS solutions.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech expert with strong capabilities in payments infrastructure and product development.

Contact

soham@mercor.com LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

LeadershipPayments InfrastructureProduct Development

Other Skills

ASP.NETAWSAmazon Web Services (AWS)CC++Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)DjangoGPT-4GitGitlabGitlab CIGolangHTMLJavaJavaScript

About

I’m a passionate engineer with a proven track record of building and scaling products from zero to millions of users across B2B and B2C domains. Over the past few years, I’ve worn multiple hats—founding engineer, senior developer, and now Engineering Manager—leading high-impact teams and driving innovation in fast-paced environments. Currently heading Payments, Referrals, and Contracts at Mercor, where I lead a 10+ member team to process multi-million-dollar payouts weekly, build robust billing systems, and architect event-driven workflows using CDC, Kafka, and Go. Prior to this, I’ve led end-to-end platform migrations, implemented scalable infrastructures on AWS, and introduced monitoring/observability practices to ensure reliability and performance. My experience spans working with fintech, SaaS, and AI-driven platforms, where I’ve solved complex challenges—from building payment orchestration layers at Google to architecting payroll solutions at a startup as a founding engineer. I thrive in roles that require technical leadership, hands-on coding, and strategic planning, ensuring every solution drives measurable business impact. Core strengths: System Design, Distributed Systems, Payments Infrastructure, Event-Driven Architectures, Team Leadership, and Cross-Functional Collaboration. When I’m not scaling systems, you’ll find me exploring new tech trends, mentoring engineers, or planning the next big engineering challenge.

Experience

Mercor

2 roles

Technical Lead

Promoted

Jan 2025 – Present · 1 yr 2 mos · Remote · Remote

Leading Payments team at Mercor. Responsible for building a resilient system to handle over million $ payouts every week, referral systems and much more.

LeadershipGolangDjangoProduct DevelopmentProduct ManagementPayments Infrastructure

Senior Software Engineer

Jun 2024 – Jan 2025 · 7 mos · Remote · Remote

Building Mercor's TEAM platform and payments infrastructure. Early contributor to all TEAM platform features. Built contracts, IAM system and Payments from scratch. Helped with many infra related decisions.

DjangoGolangAmazon Web Services (AWS)Payments InfrastructureProduct Development

Indeed

Software Engineer 2

Aug 2022 – May 2024 · 1 yr 9 mos

Was a part of the engineering excellence team. I created an end to end testing framework called Guardian for adsystem team using Robot Framework, Python and Gitlab CI. We had extended it to 5 cross functional teams to contribute their tests. My primary role here was to develop the initial POC, create a library of reusable keywords, infra related work for running the tests, presenting and onboarding teams, mentoring and guiding QA members on how to write tests and extend Guardian etc.
Also, I was a contributor for the Text2Apply project that allowed job seekers quickly apply for jobs using SMS / Text messaging on Indeed. We had over 1000 DAU and 50000$ yearly revenue.

Noba

Founding Member

Mar 2022 – Jun 2023 · 1 yr 3 mos · Remote · Remote

As a founding member of Noba, was responsible for building the entire product from ground up. Initially we started off by building on ramp solution for non custodial wallets. I was also involved in all devops work on AWS.
Later on we pivoted towards building payroll solutions for LATAM regions, I was involved directly in migration of payment workflows to Temporal, migration from Mongo to PostgreSQL, migrating to a generic notification service etc.

Node.jsJavaTemporalNestJSAmazon Web Services (AWS)Payments Infrastructure+1

Google

Software Development Engineer

Jul 2021 – Jul 2022 · 1 yr · Hyderabad, Telangana, India · Hybrid

Was a part of the Orchestration team of Payments platform. Was leading the development for the orchestration layer for the UPI intent feature. Besides development, was also responsible for creating and setting up feature flags and incremental rollouts - dogfooding, staged production rollouts. Currently this feature is being used by every Indian making any purchase using Play billing.

JavaPayments Infrastructure