[Remote] Senior Software Engineer, Data Platform

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Lithic is the modern card issuing and processing platform empowering ambitious financial companies to build the future of payments. They are hiring a Senior Software Engineer to join their Infrastructure team, focusing on building backend services and APIs to make data accessible across the organization while collaborating with the Analytics Engineering team.

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

Skills

• 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
• Familiarity with dbt or similar transformation frameworks
• Experience in fintech, payments, or other financial services environments
• Familiarity with AWS services (Lambda, S3, RDS, API Gateway, ECS/Fargate)
• Kafka or event streaming experience
• Infrastructure-as-code experience (Terraform, Pulumi)
• Experience at a company processing high transaction volumes where correctness and reliability are non-negotiable

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
• Commuter benefit
• Catered lunch every Tuesday and Thursday

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