Jobs at Astra

Architect and build high-scale backend systems for payments, fraud detection, compliance, and user management. Lead cross-domain architecture decisions, optimize distributed microservices for reliability and performance, mentor engineers, establish engineering standards, and collaborate with product and compliance teams. The role requires expertise in Python, databases, cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, event-driven architectures, system design, and financial integrations.

Designs, tests, and tunes transaction monitoring rules across payment rails; investigates escalated alerts and suspicious activity; analyzes transaction data with SQL; manages alert queues; prepares sponsor-bank referrals; and partners with Product, Engineering, Compliance, and Operations to improve monitoring, controls, and workflows.

Build and operate backend features for payments, fraud detection, compliance, and user management. Design microservices, integrate with banks and card networks, improve performance and reliability, and contribute to architecture decisions. The role requires independent end-to-end delivery, collaboration with product and compliance teams, and development using Python, Flask, SQL/NoSQL databases, and cloud infrastructure.

Own full-cycle enterprise sales for Astra’s payments and financial technology platform, from prospecting through procurement, technical review, legal, and signature. Build executive relationships, navigate complex multi-stakeholder deals, displace incumbent providers, forecast pipeline, and develop outbound strategies. Partner with engineering, integrations, and compliance teams while influencing product and go-to-market strategy. Mentor account executives and apply AI tools to improve research and sales workflows.

Build and own core platform infrastructure, including Terraform, cloud environments, CI/CD pipelines, developer tooling, observability, monitoring, alerting, secrets management, and deployment abstractions. Partner with product engineers to improve delivery speed and reliability, support GCP messaging infrastructure, develop compliance tooling, improve cost visibility, and independently operate production systems in a regulated fintech environment.

The Staff Backend Engineer will architect financial systems, lead technical decisions, mentor junior engineers, and optimize system performance in a complex fintech environment.

Design and implement complex financial systems for payment processing and compliance, lead technical decisions, mentor engineers, and optimize system performance.

Own the full-cycle B2B SaaS sales process for Astra’s fintech payments platform, from prospecting and outbound strategy through contract close. Build consultative relationships with stakeholders, manage pipeline and forecasting, uncover customer needs, and communicate product value. Collaborate with Integrations, Engineering, Compliance, and leadership on sales execution, onboarding, product feedback, and go-to-market strategy. The role is remote-first within the U.S. and requires up to 25% annual travel.