Software Engineer II, Processing
Lithic, a company powering card issuing and payment infrastructure for top fintech and digital banks, is hiring a Software Engineer to join their Processing team. This hybrid role is based in New York City with in-office work expected three days per week and offers a base salary of $140,000–$175,000. You'll help build and scale critical backend distributed systems using Java and Python, ensuring seamless financial transaction flows. The role covers everything from building new features to leading team-wide reliability efforts and mentoring peers. Benefits include unlimited PTO, 401(k) match, comprehensive health coverage, and a Work From Anywhere perk.
Candidates should have production experience, strong distributed systems design skills, and a growth mindset. Effective communication, project leadership, and a passion for mentorship and inclusive collaboration are key. Interest in fintech or payments is preferred. Familiarity with high-availability systems is highly valued.
NYC-based employees benefit from free lunches twice a week and $50/month commuting support. This is an exciting opportunity to work on systems that impact billions in transactions annually in a dynamic, mission-driven team.
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 Software Engineer for our Processing team to lead Lithic’s next phase of growth - you’ll be doing as much technical leadership as you will be writing code. The Processing team maintains and builds the backend services that manage the flow of transactions between Lithic and external networks. The distributed systems we maintain have high standards of reliability and correctness. You will become an expert in the card payments space. The team uses a combination of Java and Python.
Job 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
Qualifications:
- Experience shipping in a production environment and leading projects
- Advanced distributed system instincts and design skills
- A proven commitment to empathy and inclusion
- Excellent communication skills
- Growth mindset and continuous desire to learn and improve are a must
- Technical leadership skills are a plus
- An interest in fintech and the payments space is preferred
Base Salary range for US Candidates: $140,000 - $175,000
Benefits:
- Health, vision, and dental insurance; HSA Contribution Match
- Unlimited PTO
- 401(k) match
- Voluntary Life Insurance and AD&D
- 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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