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++.
### **Job responsibilities:**
* 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
### **Qualifications:**
* 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
Base salary range for US candidates: $200,000 - $220,000
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