Staff Software Engineer - Card Program

We are hiring a Staff Software Engineer for our Card Program team to lead Lithic’s next phase of growth - you’ll be doing as much technical leadership as you will be writing code. The Card Program team maintains services that manage the entire lifecycle of a card, including card issuance, physical card manufacturing, digital wallet tokenization, as well as KYB/KYC. Additionally, the Card Program designs and maintains the stability of Lithic’s API (gateway, SDK), working with other Lithic teams to maintain our developer-first brand promise. You will become an expert in the card payments space. The team primarily uses Python and C++.

Job responsibilities:

• Ensure high reliability and availability for Lithic’s API
• Lead development of new card lifecycle features (card issuance, tokenization, and physical card manufacturing)
• 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
• 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 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 is a must
• An interest in fintech and the payments space is preferred

Base salary range for US candidates: $200,000 - $220,000