Senior Software Engineer, Data Platform

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 through APIs
• Build internal tooling and services to enable organization self-service for data needs
• Maintain and improve existing data pipelines using Airflow and Airbyte
• Contribute to dbt projects for model improvements and data quality
• Support data governance practices including access controls and lineage documentation

Requirements

• Strong Python proficiency with experience building backend services and REST APIs
• Experience with web frameworks such as FastAPI, Flask, or Django
• Solid SQL skills and experience with modern cloud data warehouses like Snowflake
• Experience designing production APIs with proper authentication and versioning
• Familiarity with CI/CD, automated testing, and operational reliability
• Track record of shipping reliable services in production environments

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with data pipeline tools like Airflow, Airbyte, or Dagster
• Familiarity with dbt or similar transformation frameworks
• Experience in fintech, payments, or financial services
• Familiarity with AWS services (Lambda, S3, RDS, API Gateway, ECS/Fargate)
• Kafka or event streaming experience
• Infrastructure-as-code experience with Terraform or Pulumi

About the Company

Lithic is a modern card issuing and processing platform empowering financial companies to build the future of payments. Their infrastructure powers card programs for over 100 innovative clients, including Mercury, Flex, and Novo.