astra - Product Manager, Platform
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 • Ability and willingness to travel up to ~15% annually • Experience building platform products at a BaaS, payments infrastructure, or developer tools company • Familiarity with the control plane / data plane architecture pattern as applied to developer platforms • Background in workflow or rules-engine product design – if-this-then-that style programmability at the infrastructure layer • Exposure to agentic AI use cases and how AI-native systems impose new requirements on payment infrastructure (context, controls, micropayment patterns)
Responsibilities
• 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 • Shape 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
Benefits
• You'll shape the platform architecture of a company that has real ambitions to be category-defining infrastructure – the Snowflake of payments • You'll work directly with the founding team and have a significant influence on product and engineering culture • Astra is profitable at Series A – the growth trajectory is funded, not a bet on future capital raises • The platform problems here are genuinely hard: multi-rail orchestration, programmable money movement, agentic payment primitives – this is not a CRUD application • 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 • REMOTE WORK AND CULTURE
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