3 months ago
Remote, United StatesSenior / Staff+
H1B Sponsor
Responsibilities
- Architect and implement payment processing, fraud detection, and compliance systems handling millions of dollars daily
- Coordinate interactions across payments, fraud detection, user management, and compliance systems
- Lead architecture decisions affecting the platform and establish engineering best practices
- Mentor junior engineers and establish coding standards, design patterns, and engineering practices
- Improve reliability and performance across the distributed microservices architecture
- Collaborate with product and compliance teams to meet business and regulatory requirements
Requirements
- 8+ years of software engineering experience building complex production systems
- 3+ years of technical leadership experience, including mentoring, architecture decisions, and cross-team coordination
- Experience solving complex cross-domain systems engineering 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 a related field is required
- Master's degree in Computer Science or Engineering is highly preferred
- Backend development experience with Python and strong understanding of web frameworks and APIs
- Experience designing NoSQL and SQL databases
- Experience with Google Cloud Platform or similar cloud platforms
- Understanding of domain-driven design, clean architecture, and CQRS
- Ability to design systems balancing performance, maintainability, and business requirements
- Preferred experience with payment processing, fraud detection, compliance systems, AML, KYC, PCI DSS, financial APIs, money movement systems, high-scale systems, and third-party service integrations
Benefits
- Remote-first culture with flexible working arrangements
- Hiring is limited to candidates within the United States
- Professional growth through technical leadership and mentoring
- Opportunity to shape the platform and engineering culture
- Competitive compensation with equity, with no specific compensation figures stated
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About Astra
The all-in-one platform for lightning-fast payments. Astra provides the infrastructure for moving money instantly and securely. Astra’s proprietary, vertically integrated platform allows developers to easily embed real-time payments into their products. Join us! See open positions: https://astrafi.com/careers/