astra - Staff Backend Engineer
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 • Backend Development: Python (we use Python 3), strong understanding of web frameworks and APIs • Database Design: Experience with NoSQL and SQL databases • Cloud Infrastructure: Google Cloud Platform, or similar cloud platforms • Architecture Patterns: Domain-driven design, clean architecture, CQRS • System Design: Ability to design systems that balance performance, maintainability, and business requirements • Financial Systems: Payment processing, fraud detection, or compliance systems • Financial Regulations: Understanding of AML, KYC, PCI DSS, or similar regulations • Banking Integrations: Experience with financial APIs and money movement systems • High-Scale Systems: Experience with systems processing high transaction volumes • Third-Party Integrations: Experience coordinating multiple external service integrations
Responsibilities
• 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
Benefits
• Direct Impact: You'll be a big part of a small engineering team building systems that power a growing fintech platform • Architecture Influence: Lead technical decisions that will scale with our business • Complex Problems: Work on sophisticated challenges that few engineers get to solve • Team Building: Establish engineering practices and culture from the ground up • Financial Innovation: Build systems that enable new financial products and services • 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 • REMOTE WORK AND CULTURE
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