Backend Engineer

The role

You will design, build, test, and deploy backend features across payments, fraud, compliance, and user management. You will work on a distributed microservices architecture to move money at scale.

What you will do

• Design, build, test, and deploy backend features and services
• Run and monitor shipped features
• Build and maintain integrations with banks, card networks, and third-party services
• Write and review technical designs
• Participate in architecture discussions
• Find and fix bottlenecks and failure modes across microservices
• Help raise the quality of tests and observability
• Work with product and compliance to turn requirements into software

Required qualifications

• 3+ years of professional software engineering experience building production backend systems
• Track record of delivering features independently
• Solid foundation in algorithms, data structures, and computer science fundamentals
• Working experience with distributed systems, event-driven architectures, or microservices
• Ability and willingness to travel up to ~15% annually
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
• Python 3 and web frameworks and APIs
• Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases
• Google Cloud Platform, or similar cloud platforms

Nice to have

• Familiarity with domain-driven design, clean architecture, and CQRS
• Payment processing, fraud detection, or compliance systems
• Familiarity with AML, KYC, PCI DSS, or similar regulations
• Experience with financial APIs and money movement systems (ACH, card networks)
• Experience building and maintaining integrations with external services
• Experience with systems processing high transaction volumes

Benefits

• Competitive compensation with equity

About the company

Astra is building mission-critical infrastructure for moving money at scale. The platform processes billions in annual transaction volume with 99.9%+ uptime.