Senior Software Engineer

Summary

Join Lithic, a company building card issuing and payment infrastructure, as a Senior Software Engineer on the Processing team. You will lead the next phase of growth, balancing technical leadership with coding. The team maintains and builds backend services managing transaction flow, requiring high reliability and correctness. You'll become an expert in card payments, using Java and Python. This role involves owning initiatives, improving systems, mentoring team members, and participating in on-call rotation. Lithic offers competitive compensation and benefits.

Requirements

• Experience shipping in a production environment and leading projects
• Advanced distributed system instincts and design skills
• Ability to lead large cross-functional projects and step in as a strong individual contributor
• A proven commitment to empathy and inclusion
• Excellent communication skills
• Growth mindset and continuous desire to learn and improve are a must

Responsibilities

• Ensure high reliability and correctness for Lithic’s transaction gateways
• Develop new features to better serve Lithic customers
• 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 both within the team and across engineering
• Help drive strategic planning in collaboration with the engineering manager and product manager
• Mentor, sponsor, and empower team members to help them grow
• Participate in the team on-call rotation

Preferred Qualifications

• Technical leadership skills are a plus
• An interest in fintech and the payments space is preferred

Benefits

• 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
• $50/month towards your commute
• Free lunch every Tuesday and Thursday