2 days ago
Remote, United States or Remote, CanadaSenior
Base Salary
$160k - $200k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build and improve card and account lifecycle features.
- Own initiatives from planning through launch while collaborating with product, solutions, compliance, and support stakeholders.
- Design developer-focused APIs, including endpoints, documentation, and error messages.
- Build resilient, fault-tolerant systems with predictable failure modes and rapid recovery.
- Lead improvements to systems and processes within and across teams.
- Participate in the team on-call rotation.
- Write and operate production services in Python and Rust on AWS.
Requirements
- At least 4 years of experience shipping code in fast-paced production environments.
- Strong distributed-systems design skills, including experience building highly available and fault-tolerant services.
- Experience building APIs that drive product experiences for external developers.
- Sound judgment about scope, tradeoffs, and delivery timing.
- Ability to advocate for high-leverage work and balance it collaboratively against near-term deadlines.
- Experience with or willingness to learn Rust.
- Growth mindset and continuous desire to learn and improve.
- Previous fintech experience, especially card payments, is a bonus.
Benefits
- Unlimited paid time off.
- 12 weeks of fully paid parental leave.
- Four-week fully paid sabbatical after the five-year anniversary.
- Ability to work from anywhere in the world for four weeks each year.
- 3% cashback on card purchases through a complimentary Privacy.com employee account.
- Health, vision, and dental insurance with HSA contribution match.
- 401(k) match.
- Voluntary life insurance and short-term and long-term disability insurance.
- Remote position for candidates located in the United States or Ontario or British Columbia, Canada.
- NYC-based employees work from the SoHo office three days per week, including Tuesdays and Thursdays as core days, with a flexible third day.
- Commuter benefit and catered lunch on Tuesdays and Thursdays for in-office employees.
About Lithic
Lithic builds a card issuing and processing platform with APIs for developers to launch debit, credit, and prepaid card programs and move money. It sells B2B payment infrastructure and operational services, charging fees for card issuing, processing, and program management; customers include Mercury, Flex, and Novo. Privately held and headquartered in New York, it serves fintechs and platforms needing spend controls, reconciliation, and direct network connections.