Senior Software Engineer, Lithic
Authorization
$145-195k
Payment card issuing platform for developers
Job no longer available
Payment card issuing platform for developers
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
$145-195k
101-200 employees
Company mission
Lithic's mission is to build the best payments software to make paying online simply better.
Role
Who you are
- 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
What the job involves
- We are hiring a Senior Software Engineer for our Authorization team to lead Lithic’s next phase of growth - you’ll be doing as much technical leadership as you will be writing code
- The Authorization 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 Rust, C++, and Python
- Ensure high reliability and correctness for Lithic’s card payment authorization
- Develop new authorization features and rules 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
Our take
Lithic has developed a fast and simple card-issuing API that allows developers to create and monitor payment cards - physical and virtual - and the transactions that take place on them. Its expanding list of use cases includes on-demand services, vertical SaaS, and alternative lending, meaning its product spans a promising and exciting remit of growing sectors.
Lithic began as Privacy.com, helping customers keep their transactions private and secure through generating disposable, virtual payment card numbers. The significant uptake prompted a pivot of service to corporate customers and the card-issuing API (although Privacy.com continues as a subsidiary), and this savvy strategy has seen notable success as the appetite for fintech solutions continues to grow.
The company has raised impressive rounds of funding to continue developing its platform and its B2B direction. It will need this to keep its edge over larger competitors like Galileo and Marqueta - that is, to maintain its more modern infrastructure, and therefore its appealingly agile functionality for its early-stage startup customers.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-22% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Jul 2021
$60m
SERIES C
May 2021
$43m
SERIES B
Total funding: $163.4m
Company benefits
- Health, vision, and dental insurance
- Flexible PTO
- 401(k) match
- Equity
- Remote-friendly
- 12 weeks of paid family leave
Company HQ
Lower Manhattan, New York, NY
Leadership
Bo Jiang
(CEO)Previous Research Assistant at MIT Media Lab and Engineer at Hatch Labs.
Jason Kruse
(CTO)Experience as a Software Development Intern at IBM and then became a Software Engineer at Expensify.
David Nichols
(Head of Design)Extensive experience in design, most recently working as a Designer for Rabbit & Hare and then Product Designer for Palantir Technologies.
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