Full-Time Senior Software Engineer
Astra is hiring a remote Full-Time Senior Software Engineer. The career level for this job opening is Senior Manager and is accepting USA based applicants remotely. Read complete job description before applying.
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Astra processes payments at the speed of the Internet. Developers leverage our API for accelerated settlement in various transactions (account funding, peer-to-peer, business payments). We simplify complex payment rail interfacing and optimize transactions for fast, secure, automated payments.
Our platform powers next-gen fintech products, rapidly growing. The Astra API is central to financial automation.
Empowering engineers to contribute across product development (strategy to shipping, operations). We expect high performance and problem-solving, with high-quality code due to direct bank transfer and payment interactions.
Job Responsibilities:
- Design, build, and maintain a customer-facing and internal API
- Build and maintain 3rd-party integrations (bank connectivity, payments)
- Build and maintain payment and transfer automation (triggers, rules, execution)
- Build/enhance internal and developer tools
- Improve payments monitoring, compliance, and workflows
- Debug production issues with customer support
- Improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes
- Balance immediate impact with scalability/long-term considerations
Qualifications:
- Love solving complex problems
- Support a wide range of developer use cases
- Comfortable with dynamic, rapidly iterating environments
- Adhere to best practices in engineering, security, design
- Effective communicator, collaborative environment
- Early team member enthusiasm
Skills:
- Python experience (Flask/Django)
- APIs (Authentication, REST, JSON)
- Databases/Caches (Google Datastore, Memcache, Redis)
- DevOps (Google Cloud Platform, scaling, logging, error collecting)
- Queues (Google Cloud Tasks, Amazon SQS)
- Test suite writing/maintenance
- 5+ years backend engineering experience
Bonus Skills:
- OAuth server building/maintenance
- Financial/payments technology, money movement