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

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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

• 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