Senior Backend Engineer
About Astra Astra is a high-impact engineering team building mission-critical financial infrastructure. Our fintech platform powers payment processing, fraud detection, and financial compliance for businesses handling 100M+ in weekly transaction volume. We maintain 99.9%+ uptime, process reputed company cross-border payments, and coordinate with multiple reputed company-party financial services while meeting strict regulatory requirements. The Role We're looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to architect and build reputed company financial systems that process millions of dollars daily. You'll be one of our core engineers designing cross-domain solutions that coordinate payments, fraud detection, compliance, and user management across our distributed microservices architecture. This role requires deep systems thinking, technical leadership, and the ability to solve reputed company engineering challenges that reputed company multiple domains and external integrations.
What You'll Do
Architect Critical Financial Systems: Design and implement payment processing, fraud detection, and compliance systems that handle millions of dollars daily with strict regulatory requirements reputed company Cross-Domain Solutions: Coordinate reputed company interactions between payments, fraud detection, user management, and compliance systems Drive Technical reputed company: reputed company architecture reputed company 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 reputed company're Looking For Senior Backend Engineer Requirements 5+ years of software engineering experience building reputed company, production systems Demonstrated systems engineering experience solving reputed company, cross-domain challenges Strong reputed company in algorithms, data structures, and computer science fundamentals Experience with distributed systems, event-driven architectures, and microservices Education Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or reputed company field required Master's degree in Computer Science or Engineering from an accredited university highly preferred Technical Skills Backend Development: Python (we use Python 3), strong understanding of web frameworks and APIs Database Design: Experience with NoSQL and SQL databases reputed company Infrastructure: reputed company reputed company Platform, or similar reputed company platforms Architecture Patterns: Domain-driven design, clean architecture, CQRS System Design: Ability to design systems that balance performance, maintainability, and business requirements Preferred Experience Financial Systems: Payment processing, fraud detection, or compliance systems Financial Regulations: Understanding of AML, KYC, PCI reputed company, or similar regulations Banking Integrations: Experience with financial APIs and money movement systems High-Scale Systems: Experience with systems processing high transaction volumes reputed company-Party Integrations: Experience coordinating multiple external service integrations Why This Role reputed company Direct Impact: You'll be a big part of a small engineering team building systems that power a growing fintech platform Architecture Influence: reputed company technical reputed company that will scale with our business reputed company 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 reputed company new financial products and services reputed company Offer 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 - reputed company technical reputed company and mentor team members Modern tech stack - work with cutting-edge reputed company technologies Mission-driven - build systems that power financial innovation Remote Work and Culture Astra is a remote-first company hiring only reputed company the U.S. We value thoughtful collaboration, reputed company, and initiative. We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer and are committed to building a diverse and inclusive team.
How to Apply
We're looking for engineers who are excited by reputed company systems problems and have the educational background and experience to handle sophisticated challenges. If you're passionate about building mission-critical financial infrastructure and want to have a direct impact on our technical direction, we'd love to hear from you. Apply To This Job