Remote Remote (Country) Employment $169,000 - $265,000

Lithic is hiring an Engineering Manager, Program Services

About the Role

Guide engineering teams responsible for core platform services. Drive technical direction, support professional growth, and ensure delivery of high-quality, scalable solutions within a dynamic product environment.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and mentor a team of software engineers
  • Oversee the design and implementation of critical backend systems
  • Collaborate with product and engineering leaders to define priorities
  • Ensure engineering practices meet reliability and security standards
  • Drive incident response and post-mortem processes
  • Support career development and performance evaluations
  • Promote a culture of operational excellence
  • Manage sprint planning and delivery timelines
  • Evaluate and adopt new technologies when appropriate
  • Foster cross-team collaboration on shared infrastructure
  • Maintain system observability and monitoring coverage
  • Balance technical debt with feature development
  • Improve engineering onboarding and documentation
  • Champion code quality and testing standards
  • Coordinate with compliance and security teams
  • Respond to production issues as needed
  • Facilitate knowledge sharing across engineering groups
  • Optimize team workflows and development velocity
  • Represent engineering in cross-functional planning
  • Ensure alignment with long-term technical roadmap

Nice to Have

  • Master’s degree in a technical field
  • Experience in a regulated financial environment
  • Prior work with real-time transaction systems
  • Leadership experience in high-growth startups
  • Public speaking or conference presentation experience
  • Open source contributions
  • Knowledge of PCI compliance standards
  • Experience with microservices architecture
  • Familiarity with formal software delivery pipelines
  • Background in systems reliability engineering

Compensation

Competitive salary and equity package

Work Arrangement

Remote-friendly with flexible hours

Team

Collaborative engineering team focused on scalable infrastructure

Our Tech Stack

  • We use Go for backend services
  • Infrastructure is managed on AWS
  • We rely on Kubernetes for orchestration
  • Monitoring via Prometheus and Grafana
  • CI/CD pipelines built with GitHub Actions

Culture & Values

  • We value ownership and accountability
  • Team members are encouraged to propose new ideas
  • Transparency is central to our communication
  • We prioritize sustainable work practices
  • Diversity and inclusion are core to our team development

Available for qualified candidates

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About company
Lithic
Lithic creates card issuing and payment infrastructure for technology companies. We help some of the world’s fastest-growing digital banks, fintech companies, and software companies process billions in transactions annually.
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Category management
Posted 6 hours ago