[Hiring] Engineering Manager @Lithic

Role Description

Lithic is hiring an Engineering Manager for our Processing team to lead Lithic's next phase of growth. The Processing team builds and maintains the real-time interfaces between Lithic and external payment networks. Key responsibilities include:

• 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.

Qualifications

• 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.

Requirements

• The annual Canadian salary range for this role is CA$232,000 - $333,000 plus equity.
• This salary range is inclusive of several career levels at Lithic and will be narrowed during the interview process based on the candidate's experience and qualifications.
• This is a remote position. We do not offer visa sponsorship or assistance.

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
• 401(k) match
• Voluntary Life Insurance and STD/LTD
• NYC-based employees work from our SoHo office three days a week. Tuesdays and Thursdays are our core days, and you'll choose a third day that works for your schedule and team needs.
• In-office employees receive: Commuter benefit, Catered lunch every Tuesday and Thursday