# Product Lead, Platform
**Company:** [Astra](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/astra)
**Location:** Remote
**Salary:** $140K-$225K
**Experience:** 6+ years
**Skills:** Rest, Webhooks, Event-Driven Architecture, API Design, Authentication, Versioning, Pagination, Rate Limiting, Sdk, Sandbox, Observability, Rules Engines, Workflow Design, Control Plane, Data Plane
**Posted:** 2026-05-11
> 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.
## Job Description
## 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 reliability and SLA products: how Astra communicates uptime, exposes status, 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

## What You’ll Do Day-to-Day
- Define and maintain Astra's API contract philosophy – versioning strategy, backwards compatibility standards, deprecation policies, and schema design principles
- Write detailed platform specs that engineering can ship from: precise, edge-case-aware, and grounded in how real customers build
- Own the platform roadmap – balancing foundational investments (auth, observability, 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, break, 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

## What We’re Looking For
**Required Experience**
- 6+ years of product management experience, with 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 – and strong opinions about what makes a platform great to build on
- Experience owning a platform roadmap across authentication, configuration, extensibility, and observability layers
- Strong understanding of how infrastructure companies create lock-in through developer experience, not just features
- 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 communication; you can produce a platform spec that is simultaneously a product document and a technical contract
- Payments context is a plus, not a requirement – but intellectual curiosity about how money moves is required

**Preferred Experience**
- 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)

## What We Offer
- Competitive compensation with equity in a growing fintech company
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