Engineering Manager leading Lithic's Processing team, building interfaces for payment transactions and network integrations.
Responsibilities
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
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