Teams at Astra

Design and implement complex financial systems for payment processing and compliance, lead technical decisions, mentor engineers, and optimize system performance.

The Staff Backend Engineer will architect financial systems, lead technical decisions, mentor junior engineers, and optimize system performance in a complex fintech environment.

Own Astra’s platform product strategy across APIs, developer experience, control plane, webhooks, extensibility, observability, and reliability. Define API standards, write technical product specifications, shape the roadmap, conduct customer discovery, and partner with engineering, solutions, documentation, and go-to-market teams. The role requires deep platform and API expertise, systems-level product judgment, exceptional writing, and principal-level influence. Travel is expected up to approximately 15% annually.