Senior Software Engineer, Issuing

Lithic is hiring a Senior Software Engineer for our Issuing team to work cross-functionally with product, solutions, compliance and support to build reliable, developer-friendly experiences that make the complicated world of payments safe and easy for our customers and their users.

Issuing is the front door for Lithic and its customers’ card payments programs. Nearly every API interaction and card transaction traces back to a card or account created by a service the Issuing team owns. We can be the reason a launch is successful, a customer signs on or an end user takes up a payment card in their day-to-day life.

You’ll build and own the services that manage the entire lifecycle of cards and account holders, including card issuance, physical card manufacturing, digital wallet and agentic tokenization, as well as the KYB/KYC programs that keep our customers and bank partners safe. Working with our team will turn you into an expert in the card payments space.

We encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet every requirement listed below!

What You’ll Do:

• Build and innovate in card and account lifecycle features
• Own initiatives from planning to launch, including working with stakeholders and demonstrating developer-first product design thinking
• Design APIs as products, thinking through the developer experience from endpoints to docs to error messages
• Build resilient, fault-tolerant systems with predictable failure modes and fast recovery
• Lead efforts to improve systems and processes both within the team and across teams
• Participate in the team’s on-call rotation
• Write and operate production services in Python and Rust on AWS

What You’ll Bring:

• 4+ years of experience shipping code in fast-paced production environments
• Strong distributed systems design skills, including building high-availability, fault-tolerant services
• Experience building APIs that drive the product experience for external developers
• Sound judgment about what has to be right the first time and what can ship with a narrower scope and be iterated on later
• The ability to advocate for high-leverage work and weigh it collaboratively against near-term deadlines
• Experience in or desire to learn Rust
• Growth mindset and continuous desire to learn and improve
• Previous experience in fintech (especially card payments) is a bonus

The annual US salary range for this role is $160,000 - $200,000 plus equity. This salary range may be inclusive of several career levels at Lithic and will be narrowed during the interview process based on the candidate’s experience and qualifications. 

This is a remote position. However, candidates must be located in the United States or Canada (Ontario or British Columbia). We do not offer visa sponsorship or assistance.

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