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📍 San Francisco, CA· Full-time
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From $240K/yr

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#Team Nextdoor Nextdoor (NYSE: NXDR) is the essential neighborhood network. Neighbors, public agencies, and businesses use Nextdoor to connect around local information that matters in more than 350,000 neighborhoods across 11 countries. Nextdoor builds innovative technology to foster local community, share important news, and create neighborhood connections at scale. Download the app and join the neighborhood at nextdoor.com . Meet Your Future Neighbors As a Lead Designer on Nextdoor's Consumer Product team, you'll help shape the future of how neighbors connect with one another, their neighborhoods, and local businesses and events. You'll join a collaborative team of designers, product managers, engineers, and researchers working to evolve and improve the experience across our platform. We're hiring a player-coach to lead craft for Consumer Design, someone who runs a rigorous crit, coaches designers toward their next level, and holds the line when speed and quality trade off, while still shipping hands-on work themselves. Deeply human-centered and mission-driven, you're excited to create digital experiences that strengthen real-world connections and empower neighbors to build stronger communities. At Nextdoor, we operate in an AI-first environment and expect every team member to actively use AI tools as part of their workflow. We aren't looking for prompt engineers; we’re looking for people who use tools like Claude, Gemini, ChatGPT, and Glean to challenge their own thinking and take full ownership of AI-assisted outputs. We also offer a warm and inclusive work environment that embraces a hybrid employment model, blending an in office presence and work from home experience for our valued employees. The hiring team will go over these expectations with you if you are being considered for a role near one of our offices in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas, New York, and London. The Impact You’ll Make Are you excited by the challenge of

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📍 Toronto, Ontario, Canada· Full-time
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At Vanta, our mission is to help businesses earn and prove trust. We believe that security should be monitored and verified continuously, and we empower companies to practice better security and prove it with ease. Vanta has a kind and talented team, and while some have prior security experience, many have been successful at Vanta without it. As an Engineering Manager leading our Reporting team, you will lead a newly structured team focused on a critical product area within GRC Program Orchestration. This role represents an exciting opportunity to shape the future of how Vanta customers understand, visualize, and operationalize their compliance and security programs. This team is focused on evolving Vanta’s reporting platform beyond dashboards into a scalable, AI-powered reporting experience. The team owns core initiatives across enterprise reporting, historical analytics, AI-assisted insights, and certified data infrastructure powering in-product experiences. This role sits at the intersection of data products, enterprise scalability, and product innovation. As reporting becomes increasingly foundational to enterprise growth, customer retention, and Vanta’s long-term AI strategy, this role will play a key role in shaping engineering execution, cross-functional alignment, and the long-term technical direction of one of Vanta’s critical product investments. Visit our Vanta Engineering Blog to learn more about what our team is working on! What you’ll do as an Engineering Manager at Vanta: Build and scale a high-performing team: lead, coach, and grow the team while hiring strategically, identifying operational gaps, and raising the engineering bar Drive execution across strategic initiatives: Deliver against a multi-quarter roadmap spanning reporting infrastructure, enterprise reporting capabilities, AI-powered insights, and scalable data foundations Shape technical and product strategy: Partner closely with Product and cross-functional engineering teams to define the

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📍 Quebec, Canada· Full-time
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From C$98.4K/yr

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We are looking for a Lead, Data Development, AI Platform to lead the team building and operating the technical platform behind Hootsuite's Analytics MCP. This includes routing infrastructure, orchestration services, agent infrastructure, and data pipelines that enable reliable AI-driven analysis at scale. You will set technical direction for the team, strengthen engineering practices, and translate target architecture and integration standards into secure, production-grade systems that Data Analytics & AI teams can confidently build on. This is a hands-on technical leadership role. You will stay close to the code while owning delivery outcomes, engineering quality, and the team's culture of craft and accountability. You will develop strong, well-reasoned recommendations on how the platform and orchestration architecture should evolve, seek approval at the Senior Manager and Director level, and then guide the team through disciplined execution. You will also partner closely with AI Context & Integration and AI Data Architecture to ensure the platform, context layer, semantic layer, and downstream agent workflows operate as one coherent system. WHAT YOU’LL DO: Lead the design and delivery of the orchestration layer that connects the Analytics MCP platform across its most complex surfaces, including query execution across schemas and models, federated data access between the data warehouse and external source systems, and multi-step agent workflows for cross-functional business processes. Develop clear technical recommendations for platform and orchestration architecture evolution, align those recommendations with Senior Manager and Director-level direction, and guide the team through disciplined execution within the approved architecture. Own the operational reliability, scalability, quality, and observability standards for core Analytics MCP components, including routing and agent infrastructure. Guide the team to build and operate these systems to prod

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📍 San Francisco, CA· Full-time
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At Lyft, our purpose is to serve and connect. We aim to achieve this by cultivating a work environment where all team members belong and have the opportunity to thrive. The Luxury team builds rich and creative features that set the standard for the ride-sharing industry. We're looking for a motivated Senior Engineering Manager to lead the team building app experiences, UIs, and infrastructure for Black, Black SUV, and other upmarket modes where quality is uncompromising. As a Senior Engineering Manager, you'll set the technical direction for the team, making tradeoffs between technical investments and product work, and communicating strategy transparently to your team and to leadership. You'll act as a critical technical leader across backend, frontend, iOS, and Android, taking holistic ownership of complex systems, defining strategic roadmaps, and driving cross-functional alignment and engineering excellence to improve the luxury experience. Ownership is a key quality for this team. You should be driven to track projects to successful completion and beyond, taking initiative to work with other teams and functions to ensure your team's work reaches users and drives impact. You'll also help shape product direction by developing a deep understanding of the customer. You'll lead a group of talented engineers, helping the team deliver business impact while staying open to change through constant experimentation. You'll collaborate with engineering, product, data science, design, and operations on programs that empower the team to iterate quickly, delighting our passengers and drivers. If you enjoy collaborating with technical and nontechnical partners on a product with real-world impact, this is the role for you. Responsibilities: Lead a team of talented backend, frontend, and mobile engineers and engineering managers who like to ship code and tackle hard engineering problems Mentor and guide the professional and technical development of your team members. Help d

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📍 Toronto, Canada· Full-time
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From C$216K/yr

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At Lyft, our purpose is to serve and connect. We aim to achieve this by cultivating a work environment where all team members belong and have the opportunity to thrive. On the Rider team, we are growing our team with people who want to enrich the lives of our community through technology. You'll collaborate with highly cross-functional teams such as Product, Design, Data science, and Analytics, as well as other organizations like Driver, Partners, and Marketplace, to deliver on that promise. As the Senior Engineering Manager for the Rider Loyalty, Partnerships, and Rider Pay (PLP) group, you will lead multiple managers and Staff ICs with end-to-end teams, consisting of iOS, Android, and Server, to make Riders into Members and to build a robust network of partners that our Riders love. It is your responsibility to sweat the details by being customer-obsessed with specific Rider needs and to build innovative product solutions to address them. Responsibilities: Set the technical vision and team strategy for the PLP group and communicate that downwards, with peers, and upwards with ELT Coach and guide an organization of managers and engineers in their people and technical development Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to deliver high business impact Work closely with the Lyft recruiting team to hire high-potential candidates from diverse backgrounds Experience: BS/MS or equivalent in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field, or relevant work experience 3+ years of experience managing engineering teams of 20+ members, including teams across iOS, Android, and Server platforms, as well as experience in managing managers Ability to thrive in a heavily cross-functional environment and drive projects to completion regardless of the organizational structure Passion for building scalable and extensible solutions that enable others and ensure a high-quality product Experience launching and supporting consumer-facing products at scale Strong technica

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📍 Toronto, Canada· Full-time
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From C$108K/yr

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At Lyft, our purpose is to serve and connect. We aim to achieve this by cultivating a work environment where all team members belong and have the opportunity to thrive. As a Frontend Software Engineer on the Operator Core Tooling pod, you'll play a vital role in building the robust services that power our critical operations tooling platform. Your work will directly empower our micromobility operations teams by providing them with intuitive and efficient tools, significantly improving their daily workflows as they manage our fleet. You'll collaborate closely with business leaders, front-end developers, and data scientists across Lyft to achieve this impact. Responsibilities: Help define the roadmap and architecture based on technology and business needs Write well-crafted, well-tested, readable, maintainable code Have a good grasp and ability to explain the various tradeoffs made in decisions Participate in code reviews to ensure code quality and distribute knowledge Lead projects from idea to positive execution Incorporate considerations for business context and failure modes in your work Proactively participate in resolving ongoing incidents Unblock, support, effectively communicate and obtain buy-in across teams to achieve results Share your knowledge by giving brown bags, tech talks, and evangelizing appropriate tech and engineering best practices See the direct impact of your work on the efficiency of our operating teams Experience: 3+ years of software engineering industry Advanced knowledge of JavaScript Experience working with modern JavaScript frameworks, like React Experience working with NodeJS and Express applications Experience working with design systems (e.g. Bootstrap, Salesforce Lightning, GitHub Primer) Good understanding of web performance and how browsers and DOM work Experience with unit, integration, and end-to-end testing Experience designing, building and improving a set of team owned components Culture of investigating and solvin

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📍 San Francisco, Canada
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$140K – $170K/yr

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Technical Support Manager About the role: We are looking for a technically skilled, self-motivated, customer-focused manager to lead a team of high energy Support Engineers. In this role you will be responsible for hiring, developing and mentoring team members as well as delivering against key performance metrics. You'll lead process improvements for customer and partner growth, retention, and excellence, while fostering individual contributions and driving cross-functional projects that spark innovation and collaboration. You need to be comfortable working in a fast paced environment and continuously challenge the team to step outside their comfort zone. Minimum Education Requirement This position requires a U.S. Bachelor's degree (or foreign equivalent) in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, Data Science, or a closely related technical field. This requirement is a minimum and cannot be substituted by work experience alone. What You Will Be Doing Become a product expert and stay technically close to complex and critical customer escalations. Lead a team of exceptional product experts providing the Sigma user base with an excellent customer experience. Hire, develop and train a strong team of Support Engineers on an ongoing basis. Own strategic areas of the Support organization end to end, from strategy through measurable outcomes. Partner across Engineering, Product, Customer Success, Sales, and Marketing to solve customer challenges and drive cross-functional outcomes. Drive performance against key Support metrics, including CSAT, Initial Response, SLA, and Time to Resolution. Continuously refine processes to optimize efficiency, elevating customer support operations. Uncover golden insights within Support data, translating them into actionable strategies that improve customer experience, operational efficiency, and business outcomes. Develop a reputation for excellence, high credibility and integrity with

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📍 Toronto, Canada· Hybrid
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About the Team: Tubi's Internal Tools team is at the forefront of AI integration, developing everything from developer resources to production-grade AI for business operations. We are the group responsible for turning AI from an experiment into an operating capability: training, infrastructure, developer agents, and AI-powered business systems. Engineers operate with high ownership and autonomy, collaborating on shared architectural decisions and AI infrastructure. What You'll Do: Own systems end to end — design them, build them, and support them in production. Lead the projects you own: sequence the work, decide what lands first, and set technical direction for the engineers working with you. Sit with the people who use what you build, and turn what you learn there into a system. Design the service boundaries, contracts and schema evolution that let our platforms grow without breaking the teams depending on them. Make our AI systems dependable in production: evaluation harnesses, human approval steps before an agent acts, retries that handle a model returning something unexpected, and cost tracking that tells you what a task costs before you run it. Build what other engineers build on — agent skills, tool and MCP integrations, shared libraries — and raise the bar through code review, design discussion and mentoring. Spot the platform work nobody has asked for yet, make the case for it, and build it. Your Background: 5+ years of professional experience building and operating production systems, from design through production ownership. A system you designed and can walk us through end to end — where its boundaries sit, what constrained it, and what you chose against. Strong programming proficiency in a statically typed language such as Rust, Go, C++, Java, Kotlin, C#, or TypeScript. Production Rust is a plus rather than a requirement. You have owned a service in production: you wrote the runbooks, you knew what it cost, and you were the one paged when it broke. Expe

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📍 San Francisco, Canada· Full-time
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At Lyft, our purpose is to serve and connect. We aim to achieve this by cultivating a work environment where all team members belong and have the opportunity to thrive. The Airports team is part of a mission-critical endeavor that keeps travelers moving smoothly. As an engineer on our team, your role will be essential in making sure drivers and riders enjoy a dependable experience at airports. You'll work hand in hand with various teams across Lyft, fostering collaboration and driving innovation to tackle the unique challenges of the travel and airports industry. Your responsibilities will also involve managing real-time communication with airports, ensuring our technology integrates seamlessly into their operations. Your skills will be the driving force behind enhancing the airport journey for millions. Responsibilities: Drive high-impact projects and innovate new solutions to provide the best user experience. Lead large features from idea to positive execution and launch Write well-crafted, well-tested, readable, maintainable code Participate in code reviews to ensure code quality and distribute knowledge Participate in our teams on call rotation. Identify, triage, debug and resolve issues/bugs across our various applications and platforms Have the ability to explain the various trade offs made in decisions Manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables. Experience: BS/MS or equivalent in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field or equivalent practical experience 2-5+ years of software engineering/production infrastructure industry experience Experience with Python, Go Proficiency in object-oriented programming Experience working with data structures or algorithms Ability to work with a low-ego, highly collaborative, and cross-functional team Bonus points: experience pursuing side projects or open-source project Benefits: Great medical, dental, and vision insurance options with additional programs available when enrolled M

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📍 Toronto, Canada· Full-time
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About the Role: The Machine Learning team at Tubi drives the innovation behind personalized user experiences. With the largest inventory in the industry and hundreds of millions of viewers, we tackle problems in the space of recommendations, search, content understanding and ads optimization that shape the future of streaming. We are seeking a highly skilled Staff Machine Learning Engineer to contribute to transformative projects in video personalization. In this role, you will design and implement advanced algorithms and systems to improve our personalization strategy. As a senior technical expert, you will tackle complex problems in machine learning at scale, collaborating closely with cross-functional teams to develop and optimize machine learning-driven solutions. This is a hybrid role in our Toronto office. What You'll Do: Lead the design, development, and implementation of advanced recommendation systems and algorithms for a global audience Conduct deep dives into algorithmic components and systems, ensuring that models are optimized for both performance and scalability across multiple regions and product areas Build and deploy high-impact robust ML pipelines, including data extraction, feature development, model training, testing, and deployment Continuously monitor, evaluate, and optimize the performance of deployed models, ensuring they meet business goals and provide high-quality user experiences. Work closely with Product, Engineering, and Data Science teams to align on product requirements, set expectations, and deliver machine learning-driven solutions that improve user engagement Your Background: 8+ years of industry experience building production Machine Learning systems MSc or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Statistics, Mathematics, or a related field Experience with deep learning technologies for recommendation systems, including TensorFlow, PyTorch, or similar frameworks Proficiency in building and deploying full-stack machine le

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📍 Toronto, Canada· Full-time
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About the Role: As a Staff Software Engineer on the ML Infrastructure team, you will collaborate closely with the Machine Learning and Product teams to build world-class machine learning inference platforms. These platforms power essential services like personalized recommendations, search, and content understanding across Tubi. A core responsibility of this team is developing and maintaining low-latency ML model serving systems that support Deep Learning, LLM, and Search models. This involves building self-service infrastructure and critical components such as the inference engine, feature store, vector store, and experimentation engine. You will improve the way we deploy and operate our services and even contribute to open-source projects. This role grants the architectural freedom to explore new frameworks, lead critical cross-functional projects, and transform the capabilities of our ML and Product teams. Responsibilities: Design and build scalable, high throughput, and low latency distributed systems using Scala Build reusable components and services that serve various ML applications like Personalization, Search, Ads and Exploration Partner closely with ML engineers to understand their challenges and limitations and develop scalable solutions to address them. Proactively recommend solutions to keep our ML Inference stack state of the art. Take a data driven approach to identifying & optimizing latency, cost, and efficiency of our infra. Lead large scale cross functional refactorings if necessary Mentor other engineers on the team on system design, effective incident management, interviewing, leveraging LLMs for work, etc. Collaborate with ML, Product, and cross functional engineering teams to define the long term vision and architecture for ML Infrastructure at Tubi. Your Background: Experience designing and building scalable, distributed systems in any modern backend language (e.g., Scala, Java, Python, Go, C++); experience with Scala or JVM b

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📍 Toronto, Canada· Full-time
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About the Role: The Machine Learning team at Tubi drives the innovation behind personalized user experiences. With the largest inventory in the industry and hundreds of millions of viewers, we tackle problems in the space of recommendations, search, content understanding, and ads optimization that shape the future of streaming. We are seeking a Director of Machine Learning Engineering and Infrastructure to lead a hybrid team bridging advanced ML engineering with world-class infrastructure design. In this role, you will own the strategic direction and execution for scaling our machine learning capabilities while ensuring our distributed systems and infrastructure can support innovation at massive scale. You will combine technical depth with leadership excellence to guide teams that deliver both foundational ML systems and high-performance distributed services. This is a hybrid role for our Toronto office. What You'll Do: Lead and manage high-performing teams across ML engineering and ML infrastructure, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and growth. Define and execute the strategic roadmap for ML systems, including recommendation, personalization, and ads optimization. Oversee the design, development, and deployment of scalable ML pipelines: data ingestion, feature engineering, model training, evaluation, and serving. Architect distributed systems to support ML workloads at scale, ensuring reliability, observability, and operational excellence. Partner closely with Product, Engineering, and Content teams to align on business goals and deliver impactful ML-driven experiences. Support best practices in experimentation, evaluation, and ML system monitoring. Ensure cost efficiency, scalability, and performance in ML infrastructure investments. Your Background: 10+ years of industry experience spanning machine learning engineering and distributed systems. 3+ years of leadership and management experience, with a proven ability to build and lead strong t

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📍 San Francisco, Canada· Full-time
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$179K – $252K/yr

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Who We Are HP IQ is HP’s new AI innovation lab. Combining startup agility with HP’s global scale, we’re building intelligent technologies that redefine how the world works, creates, and collaborates. We’re assembling a diverse, world-class team—engineers, designers, researchers, and product minds—focused on creating an intelligent ecosystem across HP’s portfolio. Together, we’re developing intuitive, adaptive solutions that spark creativity, boost productivity, and make collaboration seamless. We create breakthrough solutions that make complex tasks feel effortless, teamwork more natural, and ideas more impactful—always with a human-centric mindset. By embedding AI advancements into every HP product and service, we’re expanding what’s possible for individuals, organisations, and the future of work. Join us as we reinvent work, so people everywhere can do their best work. About The Role HP IQ’s System Software team enables on-device experiences to take full advantage of our hardware capabilities.Our team collaborates with internal and external partners to develop unique solutions using cutting edge hardware, sensors, algorithms, and interaction models. If you enjoy solving complex, interdisciplinary problems with a world-class team, we'd love to hear from you! What You Might Do Lead, grow and mentor a high-performing embedded software team in a startup environment Serve as a technical leader and escalation point for complex hardware/software integration issues Communicate technical vision, risks, and progress clearly to cross-functional and executive stakeholders Own system-level strategy, architecture, and technical direction across multiple products Drive execution of low-level driver and framework software development in C and C++ across multiple devices and operating systems Oversee integration between hardware and software, ensuring alignment across cross-functional teams Guide performance, power, and thermal optimization efforts Balance hands-on technical invol

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📍 Toronto, Canada· Full-time
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C$110K – C$150K/yr

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About Forma.ai: Forma.ai is a Series B startup that's revolutionizing how sales compensation is designed, managed and optimized. We handle billions in annual managed commissions for market leaders like Edmentum, Stryker, and Autodesk. Our growth has been fuelled by our passion for fundamentally changing and shaping how companies use sales intelligence to drive business strategy. We’re welcoming equally driven individuals who are excited about creating something big! The Role As a Senior Solutions Engineer, you will play a critical role at the intersection of data, technology, and customer impact. You will lead the design and delivery of scalable, reliable, and high-impact technical implementations for our enterprise clients. Working with diverse and complex datasets across industries, you’ll build and optimize end-to-end analytics solutions that directly influence how customers engage with the Forma platform. You’ll partner cross-functionally to identify opportunities, scope high-value solutions, and deliver outcomes that drive measurable business impact. This is a highly visible, client-facing role that combines hands-on technical expertise with strategic thinking. What You’ll Do Lead strategic technical engagements with enterprise clients, guiding solution design for complex business challenges using the Forma platform Design, build, and optimize scalable data architectures, pipelines, and workflows (e.g., PySpark, Databricks) Translate business requirements into robust, production-ready data solutions Design and deliver custom code and customer-specific integrations to extend the Forma platform for unique client requirements Partner with Professional Services to extract, transform, and analyze client data to optimize incentive compensation and sales performance strategies Collaborate with Product, Engineering, and Customer Success to deliver high-quality, actionable datasets and insights Drive improvements in data infrastructure, perfor

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📍 Ontario, Canada· Full-time
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From $158K/yr

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Lithic is the modern card issuing and processing platform empowering ambitious financial companies to build the future of payments. Our infrastructure powers card programs for 100+ innovative clients, from fintechs reimagining credit and digital banking to platforms transforming disbursements and spend management. Companies like Mercury, Flex, and Novo rely on Lithic's developer-friendly APIs, direct network connections, and flawless reconciliation to launch and scale card programs in weeks, not years. We're building a future where access to better financial products materially improves people's lives, free from the constraints of 30-year-old mainframes and legacy processors. We're proud to be backed by world-class investors who share that vision, including Bessemer Venture Partners, Index Ventures, Spark Capital, Stripes, and Mastercard, along with many others. We're a team of 170+ across 26 states and 7 countries, headquartered in New York City. We are hiring for our Treasury team Software Engineers at various levels (II and Senior) who are curious and willing to dive deep and understand our technology and domain in order to solve interesting and hard problems.The Treasury team maintains and builds the backend services that manage the flow of funds between Lithic and third parties. This includes our ledger, ACH and wire infrastructure, and associated reconciliation. The systems we maintain have high standards of reliability and correctness. You will become an expert in the card payments space. The Treasury team primarily uses Python for their tech stack. What You'll Do: Ensure high reliability and correctness for Lithic’s ledger and orchestrated funds flows Develop new features to better serve Lithic customers Ensure that the team is delivering reliable, secure, and scalable code with minimal tech debt Own initiatives from planning to launch, keeping stakeholders informed and aligned along the way Lead efforts to improve systems and processes wit

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