Engineering Manager, Processing

🕒 May 7

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Lithic

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2018

💸 Finance

💳 Fintech

🔌 API

Finance • Fintech • API

Lithic is a comprehensive platform that powers card payments and money movement for businesses worldwide. They provide direct network integrations with Visa and Mastercard, enabling companies to issue both prepaid and credit virtual cards, as well as physical cards, and manage these through a flexible API. Lithic offers a range of services including card processing, risk management, digital banking, and revenue management. Their platform supports seamless API integration for developers, facilitating fast and efficient card issuance, transaction monitoring, and fraud detection. Lithic also offers robust dispute management and settlement solutions, ensuring efficient financial operations for clients.

📋 Description

• Ensure high reliability, low latency, and correctness for Lithic's transaction processing interfaces and related services • Lead delivery of new capabilities across authorization, clearing/settlement, disputes, and network integration surfaces • Own and evolve the infrastructure supporting physical network peering with card network partners, ensuring connectivity, failover, and capacity meet reliability requirements • Raise the bar on operational excellence: observability, incident response, on-call readiness, and pragmatic reliability improvements • Own initiatives from planning to launch, keeping stakeholders informed and aligned along the way • Partner closely with Product and cross-functional stakeholders to clarify requirements early and keep engineering time focused on the highest-impact work • Lead efforts to improve systems, processes, and documentation so new team members can ramp quickly • Participate in and help evolve the team's on-call rotation

🎯 Requirements

• Experience managing and growing engineers, including coaching, feedback, and hiring • Strong technical judgment and system design skills, especially for low-latency, high-availability systems, with solid networking and infrastructure knowledge • Comfort staying close to the work — this is a player-coach role where the manager can unblock, review designs, and occasionally contribute hands-on when needed • Experience shipping and operating production services with strict uptime and latency requirements • Experience with or interest in network infrastructure — peering, connectivity, failover, and capacity planning for external partner integrations • Experience with or interest in learning payment processing — card network protocols, authorization flows, clearing/settlement, or similar domains • Experience with Java, Python, or Kotlin and AWS (or closely related stacks), and an ability to ramp quickly where the stack is unfamiliar • Strong cross-functional communication skills and an ability to keep teams aligned under time pressure • Growth mindset and continuous desire to learn and improve • An interest in fintech and payments is preferred

🏖️ Benefits

• Unlimited PTO • 12-weeks fully paid parental leave • 4-Week Fully Paid Sabbatical (earned at your 5-year anniversary) • Work From Anywhere: work from anywhere in the world 4-weeks each year • 3% cashback on card purchases with your complimentary Privacy.com employee account • Health, vision, and dental insurance; HSA Contribution Match • 401(k) match • Voluntary Life Insurance and STD/LTD