# Engineering Manager, Processing
**Company:** [Lithic](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/lithic)
**Location:** Remote
**Salary:** $169K-$265K
**Skills:** Java, Python, Kotlin, AWS, System Design, Networking, Observability, Incident Response, Payment Processing, Infrastructure
**Posted:** 2026-04-20
> Leads engineering team building real-time payment processing interfaces for card networks like Mastercard, Visa, and Amex. Ensures high reliability, low latency systems with physical network peering; requires strong technical judgment, player-coach style, and experience in Java/Python/Kotlin on AWS.
## Job Description
## What You'll Do

- 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

## What You Bring

- 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

**Compensation:** Annual US salary range $169,000 - $265,000 plus equity. This range is inclusive of several career levels and will be narrowed based on experience and qualifications.

**Benefits for Full-Time US Employees:**
- Unlimited PTO
- 12-weeks fully paid parental leave
- 4-Week Fully Paid Sabbatical (earned at 5-year anniversary)
- Work From Anywhere: 4 weeks per year
- 3% cashback on card purchases
- Health, vision, dental insurance; HSA match
- 401(k) match
- Voluntary Life Insurance and STD/LTD
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