Lithic is the modern card issuing and processing platform empowering ambitious financial companies to build the future of payments.
Our infrastructure powers card programs for 100+ innovative clients, from fintechs reimagining credit and digital banking to platforms transforming disbursements and spend management. Companies like Mercury, Flex, and Novo rely on Lithic's developer-friendly APIs, direct network connections, and flawless reconciliation to launch and scale card programs in weeks, not years.
We're building a future where access to better financial products materially improves people's lives, free from the constraints of 30-year-old mainframes and legacy processors. We're proud to be backed by world-class investors who share that vision, including Bessemer Venture Partners, Index Ventures, Spark Capital, Stripes, and Mastercard, along with many others.
We're a team of 160+ across 26 states and 7 countries, headquartered in New York City. Our values (Customer Centricity, Deliver Excellence, Act Like an Owner, Iterate Iterate Iterate, Teach Others, and Be a Good Neighbor) shape how we work and grow as a team.
We are hiring a Senior Software Engineer to join our Infrastructure team. You’ll work on mission critical systems that power billions of dollars in money movement and power the worlds most innovative fintechs companies and digital banks. As a member of our infrastructure team, you will build the developer tooling and infrastructure that enables our internal development teams to move quickly and with confidence. You will help to design systems, respond and resolve incidents, and adapt our infrastructure to be ever more resilient. You will contribute Rust and Python code for our internal developer tooling and infrastructure. Experience in payments is not required.
Job responsibilities:- Build and manage our cloud and on-prem shared infrastructure
- Contribute to software projects that provide developer tooling that make lithic software engineers more effective
- Contribute to our Rust developer platform tooling
- Contribute to our Pulumi & Python infrastructure as code tooling
- Be on the on-call rotation for the infrastructure team - this is for the systems that the infrastructure team owns, product software teams have their own on-calls
- Demonstrated experience in SRE and SWE supporting production workloads at scale
- Experience with CI/CD and deployment patterns
- Experience with AWS
- Solid understanding of Linux systems & networking
- Experience with observability tooling and practices
- Experience with Relational Databases (Postgres in particular is a plus)
- Ability to write clear, maintainable, thoughtfully commented code
- Familiarity with strongly typed languages such Rust, Typescript, or Golang and scripting languages like Python or Javascript
- At least 2 years experience as an infrastructure team member or SRE
- At least 2 years experience as a software engineer
- Experience using AWS is a must
- Success participating in on-call infrastructure rotations
The annual US salary range for this role is $160,000 - $200,000 plus equity. This salary range may be inclusive of several career levels at Lithic and will be narrowed during the interview process based on the candidate’s experience and qualifications.
This is a remote position. However, candidates must be located in the United States, Canada, Netherlands, Poland, or Czech Republic. We do not offer visa sponsorship or assistance.
- Unlimited PTO
- 12-weeks fully paid parental leave
- 4-Week Fully Paid Sabbatical (earned at your 5-year anniversary)
- Work From Anywhere: work from anywhere in the world 4-weeks each year
- 3% cashback on card purchases with your complimentary Privacy.com employee account
- Health, vision, and dental insurance; HSA Contribution Match
- 401(k) match
- Voluntary Life Insurance and STD/LTD
NYC-based employees work from our SoHo office three days a week. Tuesdays and Thursdays are our core days, and you'll choose a third day that works for your schedule and team needs.
In-office employees receive:
- Commuter benefit
- Catered lunch every Tuesday and Thursday
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