Senior Software Engineer, Product Platform

Lithic
United States, Canada, Netherlands, Poland, Czech Republic
Workplace: RemoteFull timeUSD 160,000 - 200,000 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 4+ yearsSkills: ["Communication","Navigating ambiguity","Driving toward practical solutions","Remote async collaboration","Owning end-to-end execution"]

Build and evolve Lithic’s Product Platform—the foundational layer powering its developer APIs. You’ll write reliable, secure, scalable backend code, improve reliability and participate in on-call, and take projects from planning through launch across API key management, audit logging, and API norms/versioning. You’ll lead improvements to team systems and processes, collaborate in a remote async environment, and help customers integrate with a consistent, dependable API.

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Senior Software Engineer, Product Platform

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Job Summary

Build and evolve Lithic’s Product Platform—the foundational layer powering its developer APIs. You’ll write reliable, secure, scalable backend code, improve reliability and participate in on-call, and take projects from planning through launch across API key management, audit logging, and API norms/versioning. You’ll lead improvements to team systems and processes, collaborate in a remote async environment, and help customers integrate with a consistent, dependable API.
Location: United States, Canada, Netherlands, Poland, Czech Republic
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Write reliable, secure, and scalable code for the product platform with minimal tech debt.
  • •Improve the reliability of systems in the team’s scope and participate in the team on-call rotation.
  • •Own projects from planning to launch across areas like API key management, reliability, audit logging, or search.
  • •Lead efforts to improve systems and processes within the team.
  • •Deliver clear stakeholder updates and alignment throughout the project lifecycle.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 160,000 - 200,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Paid LeaveParental LeaveSabbaticalRemote WorkHealth InsuranceVisionDentalHsa Match401k MatchLife InsuranceHsa

Key Requirements

  • •4+ years building production backend systems, ideally including public-facing APIs at scale.
  • •Experience in or desire to learn Rust, and ability to understand systems written in other languages (Python, Java).
  • •Experience leveraging AI tools to enhance productivity.
  • •Strong API design fundamentals and product thinking, including versioning, backward compatibility, and schema-driven development.
  • •Comfort designing systems from scratch and owning development end-to-end in a remote, async-first team.
Experience:4+ years
Skills:CommunicationNavigating ambiguityDriving toward practical solutionsRemote async collaborationOwning end-to-end execution
Tech Stack:RustPythonJavaAPIsAPI gatewayEvents platformAudit loggingSchema-driven developmentAPI versioning

Company Brief

Lithic
Provides card issuing, payments, and risk infrastructure via APIs for platforms and businesses. Lithic enables programmatic virtual and physical card issuance, transaction processing, and fraud controls to embed payments into software products.
Industry: Fintech Infrastructure
Company Size: Medium (51 to 250 employees)
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Unicorn (USD 1B+)
Funding: Series C
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2014
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