Remote Remote (Country) Full-time USD 170,000 – 280,000 / year

Lithic is hiring a Senior Software Engineer, Data Platform

About the Role

The role involves building and maintaining scalable data infrastructure to support high-throughput transaction processing and analytics. The engineer will work closely with cross-functional teams to optimize data pipelines, improve system reliability, and implement monitoring solutions for critical platform components.

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement scalable data pipelines for real-time transaction processing
  • Optimize data storage and retrieval systems for low-latency access
  • Collaborate with product and analytics teams to define data requirements
  • Ensure data consistency and integrity across distributed systems
  • Monitor and troubleshoot production data workflows
  • Improve reliability and observability of data platform components
  • Evaluate and integrate new data technologies and frameworks
  • Write clean, maintainable code with thorough testing practices
  • Support incident response and root cause analysis for data issues
  • Document system architecture and data flow patterns
  • Contribute to capacity planning for data infrastructure
  • Implement data quality checks and validation layers
  • Work with security teams to enforce data access controls
  • Refactor legacy systems to improve scalability and maintainability
  • Participate in code and design reviews
  • Drive best practices in data modeling and schema design
  • Assist in on-call rotations for critical data services
  • Optimize query performance across large datasets
  • Support compliance and audit requirements for financial data
  • Collaborate on disaster recovery planning for data systems

Nice to Have

  • Experience with real-time fraud detection systems
  • Background in financial technology or payments infrastructure
  • Knowledge of stream processing frameworks like Flink or Spark Streaming
  • Familiarity with time-series databases
  • Experience with data governance and lineage tools
  • Contributions to open-source data projects
  • Advanced degree in computer science or engineering
  • Experience with regulatory compliance in financial services

Compensation

Competitive salary with equity and benefits

Work Arrangement

Remote-friendly with flexibility for time zones

Team

Collaborative engineering team focused on data infrastructure

Tech Stack

  • Primary languages: Go, Python
  • Data infrastructure: Kafka, Flink, BigQuery, PostgreSQL
  • Cloud: AWS (EC2, S3, Lambda, CloudWatch)
  • Orchestration: Kubernetes, Terraform
  • Monitoring: Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog

Impact

  • Engineers directly influence platform scalability and reliability
  • Work impacts real-time transaction decisioning and risk systems
  • Data platform supports company-wide analytics and reporting
  • Projects contribute to low-latency financial data processing

Available for qualified candidates

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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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Posted a month ago