Lithic creates card issuing and payment infrastructure for technology companies that just works. We help some of the world’s fastest-growing digital banks, fintech companies, and software companies process billions in transactions annually.
We are hiring a Senior Software Engineer for our Issuing team to lead Lithic’s next phase of growth. The Issuing team builds and maintains services that manage the entire lifecycle of a card, including card issuance, physical card manufacturing, digital wallet tokenization, as well as KYB/KYC. Additionally, the Card Program designs and maintains the stability of Lithic’s API (gateway, SDK), working with other Lithic teams to maintain our developer-first brand promise. You will become an expert in the card payments space. The team primarily uses Python and is rapidly adopting Rust.
Job responsibilities:
- Ensure high reliability and availability for Lithic’s API
- Lead development of new card lifecycle features (card issuance, tokenization, and physical card manufacturing)
- Ensure that the team is delivering reliable, secure, and scalable code with minimal tech debt
- Own initiatives from planning to launch, keeping stakeholders informed and aligned along the way
- Lead efforts to improve systems and processes within the team
- Participate in the team on-call rotation
Qualifications:
- Experience shipping in production environment and leading projects
- Strong distributed system instincts and design skills
- Experience in or desire to learn Rust
- Ability to lead cross-functional projects and step in as a strong individual contributor
- Growth mindset and continuous desire to learn and improve
- An interest in fintech and the payments space is preferred
Base salary range for US candidates: $160,000 - $190,000
- Health, vision, and dental insurance
- Unlimited PTO
- 401(k) match
- Life Insurance and AD&D policy
- 3% cashback on all Privacy purchases
- 12-weeks fully paid parental leave
- Work From Anywhere: work from anywhere in the world 4-weeks each year
We believe in-person collaboration boosts creativity, communication, and agility, which are key to our growth. Employees in the NYC area are asked to work from our SoHo office three days a week - Tuesdays and Thursdays are core in-office days - the third is flexible.
In-office employees receive:
- $50/month towards your commute
- Free lunch every Tuesday and Thursday
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