StaffBackendEngineer

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 a Senior/Staff Backend Engineer to architect and build complex 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 complex engineering challenges that span 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 - Lead Cross-Domain Solutions: Coordinate complex interactions between payments, fraud detection, user management, and compliance systems - Drive Technical Decisions: Lead architecture decisions 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   WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR Staff Backend Engineer Requirements - 8+ years of software engineering experience building complex, production systems - 3+ years of technical leadership experience (me