Senior Software Engineer - Payments

Position Overview

• Location Type: Remote
• Employment Type: Full-Time
• Salary: Competitive (Details not provided)

Astra processes payments at the speed of the Internet. Through our API, developers can easily leverage accelerated settlement for a wide variety of transfers – everything from account funding, peer-to-peer transactions, and business payments. We make the complexity of interfacing with payment rails simple and our platform optimizes transactions so that our customers can enable their users to process fast, secure, and automated payments. Our platform is powering the next generation of fintech products and services, and we are growing rapidly. The Astra API is central to how our service executes financial automation for our customers. We empower engineers on our team to contribute to the full spectrum of product development, from strategy to shipping, operations, and beyond. Since our service directly interacts with bank transfers and payments, we have a high bar for performance with matching expectations for problem-solving and high-quality code. We are looking to add key early team members to join our platform development efforts.

Requirements

• Skillset:
  • Python experience - Flask/Django
  • APIs - Authentication, REST, JSON
  • Databases/Caches - Google Datastore, MemCache, Redis
  • DevOps - Google Cloud Platform (App Engine), scaling, logging, error collecting
  • Queues - Google Cloud Tasks, Amazon SQS or similar
  • Experience writing and maintaining test suites
• Experience: 5+ years of backend engineering experience
• Comfortable Working In: Dynamic environments with fluid requirements and a rapid pace of iteration
• Values:
  • Uphold best practices in engineering, security, and design
  • Be an effective communicator and like working in a collaborative environment
  • Excited to be an early team member at a venture-backed startup

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain an API consumed by our customers and internal apps.
• Build and maintain important third-party integrations, including bank connectivity and payments execution.
• Build and maintain payments and transfer automation – triggers, rules, and execution.
• Build and enhance internal and developer tools to manage the lifecycle of payments.
• Enhance our payments monitoring, compliance programs, and associated workflows.
• Debug production issues in concert with customer support.
• Improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes.
• Balance immediate business impact with scalability and/or long-term considerations.

Company Information

Astra is a next-generation financial services company focused on providing advanced bank-to-bank transfer technology for financial institutions, fintech startups, and enterprises.

Bonus Skills (Nice to Have)

• Familiarity with building and maintaining an OAuth server
• Familiarity with financial/payments technology and money movement concepts