EngineeringManager

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 complex cross-border payments, and coordinate with multiple third-party financial services while meeting strict regulatory requirements. THE ROLE We're looking for an Engineering Manager to contribute to leading and growing our engineering team while remaining deeply hands-on in the architecture and development of complex financial systems that process millions of dollars daily. This is a player-coach role — you'll drive technical direction and mentor your team while continuing to contribute meaningfully as an engineer yourself. You'll be central to 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 proven ability to both build sophisticated systems and build the engineers who build them. WHAT YOU'LL DO - Contribute to the codebase as a technical force multiplier: filling gaps, improving quality, and modeling engineering standards. - Lead and Develop Your Team: Manage a team of backend engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence, ownership, and continuous growth. Conduct regular 1:1s, provide mentorship, and support career development across all levels of the team. - Architect Critical Financial Systems: Design and implement payment processing, fraud detection, and compliance systems that handle millions of dollars daily with strict regulatory requirements — and guide your team in doing the same. - Drive Technical Decisions: Own architecture decisions that impact the entire platform, establishing best practices and engineering standards as the organization scales. - Stay Hands-On: Contribute dir