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🕒 May 12

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Astra

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2016

💳 Fintech

🤝 B2B

🔌 API

Fintech • B2B • 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

• Define and maintain Astra's API contract philosophy – versioning strategy, backwards compatibility standards, deprecation policies, and schema design principles • Write detailed platform specs that engineering can ship from: precise, edge-case-aware, and grounded in how real customers build • Own the platform roadmap – balancing foundational investments (auth, observability, extensibility) against customer-facing features and reliability work • Conduct technical discovery with Astra's most sophisticated customers to identify platform gaps and extensibility needs • Partner with engineering to review API design, maintain developer ergonomics standards, and hold the bar on platform quality • Work with solutions and implementation teams to understand where customers get stuck, break, or build workarounds – and translate that into platform requirements • Drive the developer experience roadmap in partnership with docs, solutions engineering, and DevRel functions as they mature • Represent platform strategy in customer conversations, partnership discussions, and technical due diligence processes

🎯 Requirements

• 6+ years of product management experience, with at least 3 years building developer-facing platform or API products at a technical infrastructure company • Deep expertise in API design – REST, webhooks, event-driven architecture – and strong opinions about what makes a platform great to build on • Experience owning a platform roadmap across authentication, configuration, extensibility, and observability layers • Strong understanding of how infrastructure companies create lock-in through developer experience, not just features • Comfort reasoning about systems-level tradeoffs: latency vs. consistency, configurability vs. complexity, generality vs. opinionation • Track record of operating as a principal-level IC – setting direction, influencing without authority, and driving outcomes across engineering and go-to-market • Exceptional written communication; you can produce a platform spec that is simultaneously a product document and a technical contract • Payments context is a plus, not a requirement – but intellectual curiosity about how money moves is required.

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive compensation with equity in a growing fintech company. • Remote-first culture with flexible working arrangements • Small team, big impact — your work directly supports Astra’s ability to scale responsibly • Professional growth opportunities in compliance and risk management • Mission-driven — build infrastructure that powers financial innovation while meeting the highest regulatory standards