About the role

Senior Software Engineer at Lithic developing backend services and APIs for data access. Collaborating with Analytics Engineering team and contributing to data governance processes.

Responsibilities

Design, build, and maintain backend services and REST APIs that serve data from various SQL subsystems and other data sources
Develop well-tested, production-grade Python services with clean API contracts, proper authentication, versioning, and error handling
Work closely with the Analytics Engineering team to expose modeled data (billing, settlement, finance) through APIs that downstream consumers can rely on
Build internal tooling and services that enable the broader organization to self-serve their data needs without writing SQL
Participate in code reviews, system design discussions, and engineering best practices across the Infrastructure org
Contribute to service observability: logging, metrics, alerting, and on-call practices for the services you own
Maintain and improve existing data pipelines that move data from source systems into Snowflake (Airflow, Airbyte)
Contribute to the dbt project alongside the Analytics Engineering team — model improvements, test coverage, and data quality
Support data governance practices including access controls, lineage documentation, and data quality standards

Strong Python proficiency with experience building backend services and REST APIs
Experience with web frameworks such as FastAPI, Flask, Django, or similar
Solid SQL skills and hands-on experience with modern cloud data warehouses (Snowflake strongly preferred)
Experience designing and building production APIs with proper authentication, versioning, and error handling
Familiarity with CI/CD, automated testing, and operational reliability practices
A track record of shipping reliable, well-tested services in production environments
Comfort navigating ambiguity and driving projects forward with minimal oversight
Experience with data pipeline development using tools like Airflow, Airbyte, Dagster, or similar (preferred)
Familiarity with dbt or similar transformation frameworks (preferred)
Experience in fintech, payments, or other financial services environments (preferred)
Familiarity with AWS services (Lambda, S3, RDS, API Gateway, ECS/Fargate) (preferred)
Kafka or event streaming experience (preferred)
Infrastructure-as-code experience (Terraform, Pulumi) (preferred)

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