Lithic

Lithic is a card issuing processor founded in 2014, originally as Privacy.com, that provides the APIs and operational services through which high-growth technology companies move money and build card programmes. Its platform supports the issuance of debit, credit and prepaid cards, and powers billions of dollars in transactions annually. Customers include Mercury, Novo and Parker.

The company's work sits at the intersection of payments and platform engineering: card issuing processing, payment APIs, financial infrastructure and money movement, with an emphasis on systems that can absorb scale while keeping programme launch and day-to-day operations straightforward. Operational services are provided alongside the APIs, so that clients can offload much of the complexity inherent in card programmes and scale with confidence. The firm employs between 51 and 200 people.

Lithic is headquartered in New York City's SoHo neighbourhood and operates a remote-friendly model within the United States, complemented by a work-from-anywhere policy that allows staff to work globally for four weeks each year. Benefits include unlimited paid time off, 401(k) matching, 12 weeks of fully paid parental leave and a fully paid four-week sabbatical after five years of tenure. The company describes itself as mission-driven, with the aim of making powerful financial infrastructure accessible to every builder, and states that it values autonomy, continuous learning and collaborative problem-solving.