Engineering Manager, Processing
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LithicFinTech, Payments
United States, Canada, Netherlands, Poland, or Czech RepublicFull-TimeManager
Salary169000 - 265000 USD per year
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Job Details
- Required Skills
- AWSPythonJavaKotlinNetworking
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
- Solid networking and infrastructure knowledge
- Comfort staying close to the work as a player-coach
- 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
- 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)
- 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
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
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