Backend Engineer

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🕒 October 21

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $125k - $160k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🔙 Backend Engineer

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Astra

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2016

📦 Logistics

💳 Fintech

🔌 API

Logistics • Fintech • API

<Astra> Astra is a Payments Cloud platform that provides a vertically integrated, compliance-first solution for instant money movement across multiple payment rails (ACH, RTP, FedNow, Visa Direct, Mastercard Move). It centralizes processing plus KYC/AML, fraud screening, ledgering, reconciliation, disputes, and treasury behind a single API so businesses can launch payouts, instant funding, and accelerated bank transfers without building or maintaining a payments stack. Astra targets developer-led teams and platforms, enabling fast time-to-market, intelligent routing, and configurable payment workflows for B2B customers via one integration.

📋 Description

• Design, build, test, deploy, run, and monitor backend features and services across payments, fraud, compliance, and user management • Build and maintain integrations with banks, card networks, and other third-party services • Handle edge cases associated with money movement • Write and review technical designs • Participate in architecture discussions • Find and fix bottlenecks and failure modes across microservices • Improve test quality and observability • Collaborate with product and compliance teams to translate business and regulatory requirements into working software

🎯 Requirements

• 3+ years of professional software engineering experience building production backend systems • Track record of delivering features independently from ambiguous requirements through production • Solid foundation in algorithms, data structures, and computer science fundamentals • Working experience with distributed systems, event-driven architectures, or microservices • Ability and willingness to travel up to approximately 15% annually • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience • Python 3 and web frameworks and APIs, especially Flask • Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases • Google Cloud Platform or similar cloud platforms • Familiarity with domain-driven design, clean architecture, and CQRS is a plus • Financial systems experience, including payment processing, fraud detection, or compliance systems, preferred • Familiarity with AML, KYC, PCI DSS, or similar regulations, preferred • Experience with financial APIs and money movement systems such as ACH and card networks, preferred • Experience building and maintaining third-party integrations, preferred • Experience with systems processing high transaction volumes, preferred • Authorization to work in the United States • Must not require visa sponsorship to continue working in the United States

🏖️ Benefits

• Equity in a growing fintech company • Remote-first culture with flexible working arrangements • 100% company-paid health insurance for employees • 401(k) with company matching • Wide range of benefits • Opportunity for broader scope and technical leadership growth

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