Staff Backend Engineer

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🕒 June 3

🗽 New York – Remote

🗽 New York – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🔙 Backend Engineer

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Astra Finance

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11 - 50 employees

💳 Fintech

💸 Finance

☁️ SaaS

Fintech • Finance • SaaS

Astra Finance is an all-in-one payments platform that provides an API for processing instant payments between bank accounts and cards. It is designed for product teams aiming to embed secure and fast payment solutions while minimizing the risk of fraud and failures. With features like instant disbursements, payout options, and accelerated ACH transfers, Astra Finance offers a full-stack payment processing solution, making it an ideal choice for fintech companies looking to streamline their payments infrastructure.

📋 Description

• Architect Critical Financial Systems: Design and implement payment processing, fraud detection, and compliance systems that handle millions of dollars daily with strict regulatory requirements • Lead Cross-Domain Solutions: Coordinate complex interactions between payments, fraud detection, user management, and compliance systems • Drive Technical Decisions: Lead architecture decisions that impact our entire platform and establish best practices for a growing team • Mentor Engineers: Guide junior engineers and establish coding standards, design patterns, and engineering practices • Optimize System Performance: Improve reliability and performance across our distributed microservices architecture • Collaborate Across Teams: Work closely with product and compliance teams to design systems that meet business and regulatory requirements

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of software engineering experience building complex, production systems • 3+ years of technical leadership experience (mentoring, architecture decisions, cross-team coordination) • Demonstrated systems engineering experience solving complex, cross-domain challenges • Strong foundation in algorithms, data structures, and computer science fundamentals • Experience with distributed systems, event-driven architectures, and microservices • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field required • Master's degree in Computer Science or Engineering from an accredited university highly preferred • Preferred experience with payment processing, fraud detection, or compliance systems • Understanding of AML, KYC, PCI DSS, or similar regulations • Experience with financial APIs and money movement systems • Experience with systems processing high transaction volumes • Experience coordinating multiple external service integrations

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive compensation with equity in a growing fintech company • Remote-first culture with flexible working arrangements • Small team, big impact - your work directly shapes our platform • Professional growth - lead technical decisions and mentor team members • Modern tech stack - work with cutting-edge cloud technologies • Mission-driven - build systems that power financial innovation