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Lithic
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Software Engineer, Treasury

Brief overview

Remote
UndergradOr in progress
$160k–$200k/yrStated range
5+ yrsMinimum
PythonAWSDistributed Systems

About the company

Lithic is a financial technology startup that provides virtual cards and a card issuing platform for businesses and consumers.

Job description

Summary

Lithic is a modern card issuing and processing platform empowering financial companies to build payment products. The Treasury team is hiring Software Engineers to build and maintain reliable backend services for ledgers, ACH and wire infrastructure, reconciliation, and the movement of funds between Lithic and third parties.

Responsibilities

  • Own initiatives from planning to launch, keeping stakeholders informed and aligned while maintaining a high bar for quality
  • Own your learning of business domains and technical stacks to build a comprehensive mental model of the Treasury ecosystem and how money moves—while the team helps you get there
  • Improve system resilience and ensure high reliability and correctness for Lithic’s ledger and orchestrated funds flows
  • [Senior] Lead the architectural direction and solve our most complex technical challenges, ensuring our systems scale gracefully as we grow

Skills

  • **Business and technical curiosity**: You have a natural drive to peel back layers of a system until you understand the root cause of a problem and how it impacts the broader financial ecosystem
  • **A structured approach to learning**: You demonstrate a growth mindset centered on building complete mental models of complex systems
  • **Autonomy and urgency**: You have high agency and thrive in an environment where you are given a problem space rather than a list of tasks, moving with purpose to deliver high-quality solutions
  • This is a remote position. However, candidates must be located in the United States, Canada (Ontario or British Columbia), Netherlands, Poland, or Czech Republic. We do not offer visa sponsorship or assistance
  • **[Senior] Experience building distributed systems**: You have the technical judgment required to design and scale high-stakes infrastructure where reliability and correctness are foundational

Qualifications

Must Haves

  • **Business and technical curiosity**: You have a natural drive to peel back layers of a system until you understand the root cause of a problem and how it impacts the broader financial ecosystem
  • **A structured approach to learning**: You demonstrate a growth mindset centered on building complete mental models of complex systems
  • **Autonomy and urgency**: You have high agency and thrive in an environment where you are given a problem space rather than a list of tasks, moving with purpose to deliver high-quality solutions
  • This is a remote position. However, candidates must be located in the United States, Canada (Ontario or British Columbia), Netherlands, Poland, or Czech Republic. We do not offer visa sponsorship or assistance

Nice to Haves

  • **[Senior] Experience building distributed systems**: You have the technical judgment required to design and scale high-stakes infrastructure where reliability and correctness are foundational

Benefits

  • Equity
  • 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
  • Remote position
  • Commuter benefit for in-office employees
  • Catered lunch every Tuesday and Thursday for in-office employees

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