
Astra
San Francisco, CA
Instant payments API for developers
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
Python, Flask, GCP, SQL, NoSQL, microservices, Event-Driven Architecture, React, TypeScript, Google Cloud, Git, Zendesk, Jira, Terraform, GitHub Actions, Go, Bash, SOC 2, ISO 27001, logging
Perks & benefits
Health insurance, Dental insurance, Vision insurance, 401k match, Parental leave, Unlimited PTO, Home office stipend, Remote work
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10Build and operate core platform infrastructure, developer tooling, CI/CD, observability, and cloud reliability systems for a regulated payments platform. Requires 5+ years of infrastructure or backend experience, strong infrastructure-as-code skills, and production cloud expertise.
Leads Astra’s enterprise compliance, financial-crimes, payments, privacy, GRC, and assurance programs while advising executives, the Board, product teams, and bank partners. Requires 8+ years of financial-services compliance experience, BSA/AML leadership, sponsor-bank expertise, and a bachelor’s degree.
The Account Executive will own full-cycle B2B SaaS sales for payment and fintech solutions, from outbound prospecting through contract close. The role requires 3+ years of payments or fintech sales experience, strong consultative selling and pipeline-building skills, and comfort with technical stakeholders.
Leads Astra’s finance strategy and infrastructure, including forecasting, capital planning, payments economics, treasury, reporting, fundraising support, and team building. The role requires 7+ years of finance experience, startup or venture-backed exposure, strong modeling skills, and familiarity with fintech or payments.
Provide front-line technical support for Astra's payments API platform. Troubleshoot integration issues, resolve customer tickets within SLAs, escalate appropriately, and contribute to knowledge base and process improvements. Requires 1-3 years in API/technical support with strong troubleshooting and communication skills.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Provides hands-on technical support for customer integrations, APIs, payment operations, and cloud systems while diagnosing issues and translating complex problems into clear solutions. The role requires 1–3 years of technical support or integration experience, strong communication, and overnight Eastern Time coverage.