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Astra

Instant payments API for developers

fintechSan Francisco, CA1-50Series ARemoteFounded 2016Salary transparent
About

Astra builds an API platform for embedding instant payments and money movement between bank accounts, cards, and rails like Visa Direct, RTP, ACH. It serves product teams and fintechs by providing full-stack infrastructure including compliance, fraud detection, and settlement. This enables faster, secure real-time transfers without building complex middleware.

Tech stack
PythonFlaskGCPSQLNoSQLmicroservicesEvent-Driven ArchitectureReactTypeScriptGoogle CloudGitZendeskJiraTerraformGitHub ActionsGoBashSOC 2ISO 27001logging
Perks & benefits
Health insuranceDental insuranceVision insurance401k matchParental leaveUnlimited PTOTech stipendRemote work
Open roles 9

Technical Account Manager

Manage technical success for customers by resolving integration issues, providing guidance, and collaborating with engineering teams. Requires 5+ years in a customer-facing technical role and strong troubleshooting skills.

United StatesCustomer SuccessRemote5+ YOEGoGCP

Engineering Manager

Player-coach Engineering Manager leading a backend team building payment processing, fraud detection, and compliance systems. Requires 7+ years engineering experience and 2+ years leading teams while remaining hands-on with Python, distributed systems, and GCP.

United StatesEngineering ManagementRemote7+ YOESQLGCP

Senior Backend Engineer

Astra is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to architect and build complex financial systems for payment processing, fraud detection, and compliance. This role involves leading technical decisions, mentoring junior engineers, and optimizing system performance within a distributed microservices architecture.

United StatesBackend EngineeringRemote5+ YOESQLGCP

Staff Backend Engineer

Astra is seeking a Staff Backend Engineer to architect and build complex financial systems for payment processing, fraud detection, and compliance. This role requires deep systems thinking, technical leadership, and experience with distributed microservices.

United StatesBackend EngineeringRemote8+ YOESQLGCP

Senior Fullstack Engineer

As a Senior Fullstack Engineer, you will primarily focus on frontend architecture using React and TypeScript, while also contributing to Python APIs. You will own features end-to-end, from UI to data layer, and help establish frontend best practices for a growing team.

United StatesFullstack EngineeringRemote5+ YOESQLGCP

Product Lead, Platform

Owns Astra's platform layer including APIs, developer experience, control plane, webhooks, and extensibility for programmable payments infrastructure. Requires 6+ years PM experience with 3+ years in developer-facing API/platform products and deep API design expertise.

140k – 225kUnited StatesProduct ManagementRemote6+ YOESdkRest

Account Executive

Account Executive drives full-cycle B2B sales for fintech payments platform, prospecting leads, consultative selling, and closing deals with technical stakeholders. Requires 3-5+ years FinTech/SaaS experience, strong outbound skills, and collaboration with engineering/compliance teams.

80k – 115kUnited StatesAccount ExecutiveRemote3+ YOECRMPayments

GRC Program Manager

Owns end-to-end execution of GRC programs including SOC 1/2, PCI DSS, and ISO 27001 audits, control design, risk assessments, and vendor management. Partners with engineering to implement technical controls and documentation for scalable compliance in fintech.

95k – 135kUnited StatesSecurity EngineeringRemote3+ YOESDLCSoc 1

Product Lead, Payments

Owns end-to-end payments product including rails like ACH, RTP, Visa Direct, transaction lifecycles, API design, and compliance. Requires 6+ years PM experience with 3+ in payments infrastructure and deep transaction expertise. Highly cross-functional IC role driving strategy and alignment.

140k – 225kUnited StatesProduct ManagementRemote6+ YOEAchRtp