Senior Software Engineer, Processing (Remote)

Lithic; United States; Hybrid; USD 160,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited PTO

Parental leave (12 weeks)

Sabbatical (4 weeks at 5 years)

Work From Anywhere (4 weeks/year)

3% cashback on card purchases with a N

Health, vision, dental insurance

401(k) match

Life Insurance

Job summary

Lithic is hiring a Senior Software Engineer, Processing to lead real-time interfaces between Lithic and external payment networks. You will own high-reliability, low-latency transaction processing across Mastercard, Visa, and Amex, including authorization, clearing, and settlement surfaces.

The role requires strong distributed systems skills and ownership mindset. The role emphasizes network peering, on-call duties, and collaboration with product and engineering managers.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience shipping code in fast-paced production environments.
• Advanced distributed systems instincts and design skills.
• Experience driving large cross-functional projects across engineering, product, and operations teams.
• Proven commitment to empathy and inclusion.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Growth mindset and continuous desire to learn and improve is a must.
• Interest in fintech and the payments space is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Ensure high reliability, low latency, and correctness for Lithic's transaction processing interfaces and related services.
• Develop new capabilities across authorization, clearing/settlement, disputes, and network integration surfaces.
• Ensure the team delivers reliable, secure, and scalable code with minimal tech debt.
• Evolve infrastructure supporting network peering with card network partners, ensuring connectivity and capacity meet reliability requirements.
• Own initiatives from planning to launch, keeping stakeholders informed and aligned.
• Participate in the team on-call rotation.
• Lead efforts to improve systems and processes within the team and across engineering.
• Help drive strategic planning in collaboration with the engineering manager and product manager.

Skills

Distributed systems design

Communication skills

Growth mindset

Empathy and inclusion

Tools

AWS

Java

Python

Kotlin

Job description

Lithic is hiring a Senior Software Engineer, Processing to lead real-time interfaces between Lithic and external payment networks. You will own high-reliability, low-latency transaction processing across Mastercard, Visa, and Amex, including authorization, clearing, and settlement surfaces.

The role requires strong distributed systems skills and ownership mindset. The role emphasizes network peering, on-call duties, and collaboration with product and engineering managers.