Staff Software Engineer, Lithic
Issuing
$200-220k
Payment card issuing platform for developers
Open for applications
Payment card issuing platform for developers
101-200 employees
Open for applications
$200-220k
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 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++
- 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
Otta's take
Theo Margolius
COO of Otta
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.
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Employee endorsements
Autonomy
""Autonomy" & "Trust" go hand-in-hand. What I've really enjoyed is how instead of having to "do your time", you step in from day one with the ability..."
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 values
- Be a good neighbor
- Build a great neighborhood
- Ask why, learn why
- Empower others
- Think like an owner
- Do the thing
Company HQ
Lower Manhattan, New York, NY
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Founders
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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