About this role
Lithic is a modern card issuing and processing platform that empowers financial companies to build the future of payments. They are hiring Software Engineers for their Treasury team to maintain and build backend services that manage the flow of funds, ensuring high reliability and correctness in their systems.
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
- [Staff/Senior] Lead the architectural direction and solve our most complex technical challenges, ensuring our systems scale gracefully as we grow
Requirements:
- 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
- [Staff/Senior] Experience building distributed systems: You have the technical judgment required to design and scale high-stakes infrastructure where reliability and correctness are foundational