Teams at Lithic

Lead development and reliability of real-time and batch payment-processing systems across authorization, clearing, settlement, disputes, and card-network integrations. Build scalable, secure, low-latency services using Java, Python, Kotlin, and AWS; improve network peering infrastructure, failover, and capacity. Own initiatives from planning through launch, participate in on-call rotations, reduce technical debt, and drive cross-functional engineering improvements and strategic planning.

Own client, third-party, and enterprise risk assessment programs end to end. Conduct assessments, underwriting, vendor due diligence, control testing, risk scoring, and limit recommendations. Maintain risk registers, rubrics, questionnaires, SOPs, KPIs, and KRIs while preparing materials for banks, auditors, and examiners. Lead the testing and deployment of agentic tooling across assessment workflows, make judgment calls on exceptions, improve program methodology, and mentor teammates.

Build and own reliable, secure, scalable backend systems for real-time card authorization and fraud prevention. Develop customer-facing features including rules, velocity controls, 3D Secure flows, fraud tooling, and transaction monitoring. Lead projects end-to-end, improve system reliability, participate in on-call rotation, and drive process improvements while solving distributed-systems challenges at scale.