Astra
fintech
ProductLead,Platform
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“Product Lead, Platform at Astra. Skills: platform architecture, API design, developer experience, payments infrastructure. Astra's core API platform: authentication, versioning, pagination, rate limiting, error taxonomy, and the developer contracts that customers build on. The control plane product: configuration surfaces, rule engines, programmable routing logic, and the levers customers use to customize money movement behavior”
What You'll Achieve.
time-to-first-transaction metric
Industry & Context.
Comfort reasoning about systems-level tradeoffs
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
6+ years of product management experience, at least 3 years building developer-facing platform or API products at a technical infrastructure company, Deep expertise in API design – REST, webhooks, event-driven architecture, Comfort reasoning about systems-level tradeoffs: latency vs. consistency, configurability vs. complexity, generality vs. opinionation, Track record of operating as a principal-level IC – setting direction, influencing without authority, and driving outcomes across engineering and go-to-market, Exceptional written you can produce a platform spec that is simultaneously a product document and a technical contract, intellectual curiosity about how money moves is required
Nice to Have
Experience building platform products at a BaaS, payments infrastructure, or developer tools company, Familiarity with the control plane / data plane architecture pattern as applied to developer platforms, Background in workflow or rules-engine product design – if-this-then-that style programmability at the infrastructure layer, Exposure to agentic AI use cases and how AI-native systems impose new requirements on payment infrastructure (context, controls, micropayment patterns), Payments context is a plus
What You'll Do.
Astra's core API platform: authentication
and the developer contracts that customers build on
The control plane product: configuration surfaces
programmable routing logic
and the levers customers use to customize money movement behavior
Webhook and event architecture: delivery guarantees
and the observability customers need to build reliable integrations
Developer experience: documentation quality
and the time-to-first-transaction metric
Platform extensibility: how customers compose Astra's primitives – triggers
actions – to build complex payment workflows without custom engineering
Platform reliability and SLA products: how Astra communicates uptime
and gives customers visibility into degradation
Long-term platform strategy: how Astra evolves from a multi-rail API into a programmable payments infrastructure layer
including agentic payment use cases
Define and maintain Astra's API contract philosophy – versioning strategy
backwards compatibility standards
and schema design principles
Write detailed platform specs that engineering can ship from: precise
and grounded in how real customers build
Own the platform roadmap – balancing foundational investments (auth
extensibility) against customer-facing features and reliability work
Conduct technical discovery with Astra's most sophisticated customers to identify platform gaps and extensibility needs
Partner with engineering to review API design
maintain developer ergonomics standards
and hold the bar on platform quality
Work with solutions and implementation teams to understand where customers get stuck
or build workarounds – and translate that into platform requirements
Drive the developer experience roadmap in partnership with docs
solutions engineering
and DevRel functions as they mature
Represent platform strategy in customer conversations
partnership discussions
and technical due diligence processes
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
partner deeply with engineering, solutions, and go-to-market; Partner with engineering to review API design, maintain developer ergonomics standards, and hold the bar on platform quality; Work with solutions and implementation teams to understand where customers get stuck, break, or build workarounds; Drive the developer experience roadmap in partnership with docs, solutions engineering, and DevRel functions as they mature; Represent platform strategy in customer conversations, partnership discussions, and technical due diligence processes
Communication Scope
Exceptional written you can produce a platform spec that is simultaneously a product document and a technical contract
Process & Methodology
Own the platform roadmap
Full Job Description
ABOUT ASTRA Astra is building mission-critical infrastructure for moving money at scale. Our platform processes billions in annual transaction volume with 99.9%+ uptime, powering real-time transfers, bank debits, card disbursements, and complex financial compliance systems. We provide APIs and automation tools that enable businesses to move money programmatically while maintaining strict regulatory requirements. THE ROLE We're looking for a Staff-level Product Lead to own Astra's platform layer – the APIs, developer experience, control plane, and foundational infrastructure products that sit above the rails and make Astra the Payments Cloud rather than just a payments gateway. This is an IC role with principal-level scope: you'll shape the architecture of how customers interact with Astra, how they configure and extend the platform, and how Astra scales to serve increasingly sophisticated builders. You'll work directly with the Leadership Team and partner deeply with engineering, solutions, and go-to-market. The right person thinks like a platform architect, writes like an API designer, and ships like someone who has felt the consequences of a bad developer experience at 2am. WHAT YOU’LL OWN - Astra's core API platform: authentication, versioning, pagination, rate limiting, error taxonomy, and the developer contracts that customers build on - The control plane product: configuration surfaces, rule engines, programmable routing logic, and the levers customers use to customize money movement behavior - Webhook and event architecture: delivery guarantees, retry logic, event schema design, and the observability customers need to build reliable integrations - Developer experience: documentation quality, SDK surface, sandbox fidelity, onboarding flows, and the time-to-first-transaction metric - Platform extensibility: how customers compose Astra's primitives – triggers, conditions, actions – to build complex payment workflows without custom engineering - Platform reliabil
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