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Sean Hildebrand

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Head of Leverage Engineering at Mercor
📍 San Francisco, California, United States

Sean Hildebrand is an engineering leader specializing in fintech, payments, and infrastructure, currently serving as the Head of Leverage Engineering at Mercor. He has a proven history of scaling platforms and teams during pivotal growth stages at companies like Syncter and Instacart. He holds a degree in Computer Engineering.

Based in San Francisco after relocating from Toronto, Sean has an interest in fitness technology companies like Strava and WHOOP. He is an active member of the Bay Area tech community and enjoys connecting with peers.

During the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, Sean played a key leadership role in scaling Instacarts platform to meet unprecedented demand.

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Experience
8 Years
Current Role
Head of Leverage Engineering
Job Level
Mid-senior
Location
San Francisco, California, United States
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Scaling Engineering Teams
He has significant experience taking full ownership of engineering functions and leading teams through periods of rapid growth at multiple companies.
Fintech Infrastructure
His career is focused on building core platform services and defining technical strategy for companies in the complex banking and fintech ecosystem.
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Work history

9-2025
Head of Leverage Engineering
Mercor
10-2023 - 9-2025
VP of Engineering
Synctera
9-2020 - 10-2023
Head of Platform Engineering
Synctera
6-2020 - 9-2020
Engineering Manager
Taplytics
3-2019 - 6-2020
Engineering Manager
Instacart
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