Backend Engineer - Fintech Infrastructure (Remote)

Astra-l; Only (TN); Remote; USD 125,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first culture

Equity in growing fintech

Flexible working arrangements

Job summary

Astra is seeking a Backend Engineer to build and ship features across payments, fraud, compliance, and user management within our distributed microservices system. You will own features end to end—from design through production—and contribute to architecture discussions.

This remote-first role is limited to the United States. You should expect up to 15% travel, opportunities to influence architecture, and a path toward technical leadership as the team scales.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional software engineering experience building production backend systems.
• Experience delivering features independently, from ambiguous requirements to production, with sound judgment on when to ask for help
• 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

Responsibilities

• Own features end to end: Design, build, test, and deploy backend features and services across payments, fraud, compliance, and user management, then run and monitor what you ship
• Integrate with financial partners and APIs: Build and maintain integrations with banks, card networks, and other third-party services, handling the edge cases that money movement demands
• Contribute to design: Write and review technical designs for your own work, participate in architecture discussions, and learn how our domain-driven, event-driven approach fits together
• Improve performance and reliability: Find and fix bottlenecks and failure modes across our microservices, and help raise the quality of our tests and observability
• Collaborate across teams: Work closely with product and compliance to turn business and regulatory requirements into working software

Skills

Backend development

Distributed systems

Event-driven architecture

Problem solving

Travel willingness

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

Tools

Python 3

Flask

SQL

NoSQL

Google Cloud Platform

DDD

CQRS

Job description

Astra is seeking a Backend Engineer to build and ship features across payments, fraud, compliance, and user management within our distributed microservices system. You will own features end to end—from design through production—and contribute to architecture discussions.

This remote-first role is limited to the United States. You should expect up to 15% travel, opportunities to influence architecture, and a path toward technical leadership as the team scales.