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Own Astra’s platform product strategy across APIs, developer experience, control plane, webhooks, extensibility, observability, and reliability. Define API standards, write technical product specifications, shape the roadmap, conduct customer discovery, and partner with engineering, solutions, documentation, and go-to-market teams. The role requires deep platform and API expertise, systems-level product judgment, exceptional writing, and principal-level influence. Travel is expected up to approximately 15% annually.

Build and own core platform infrastructure, including Terraform, cloud environments, CI/CD pipelines, developer tooling, observability, monitoring, alerting, secrets management, and deployment abstractions. Partner with product engineers to improve delivery speed and reliability, support GCP messaging infrastructure, develop compliance tooling, improve cost visibility, and independently operate production systems in a regulated fintech environment.

Lead Astra’s enterprise compliance program, serving as BSA/AML Compliance Officer and overseeing financial crimes, payments, privacy, GRC, SOC 2, PCI DSS, audits, bank partnerships, and third-party risk. The role manages and scales the compliance team, advises executives and the Board, evaluates product and payment-flow risks, develops practical controls, and supports responsible growth across fintech and embedded-finance use cases.

Seeking a Senior Fullstack Engineer with frontend focus in React, TypeScript, and Python. Responsibilities include frontend architecture, API building, and leading frontend standards. Requires 5+ years of experience with strong team collaboration.

Lead a backend engineering team as a player-coach building payment processing, fraud detection, compliance, and user management systems. Architect distributed microservices, drive technical decisions, write code, mentor engineers, coordinate cross-team integrations, and ensure reliable, regulatory-compliant, high-scale financial infrastructure.

Own the full-cycle B2B SaaS sales process for Astra’s fintech payments platform, from prospecting and outbound strategy through contract close. Build consultative relationships with stakeholders, manage pipeline and forecasting, uncover customer needs, and communicate product value. Collaborate with Integrations, Engineering, Compliance, and leadership on sales execution, onboarding, product feedback, and go-to-market strategy. The role is remote-first within the U.S. and requires up to 25% annual travel.

Provide frontline technical support for API integrations and payments: own and resolve inbound tickets, triage and escalate appropriately, meet SLAs, document runbooks, monitor trends, and communicate clear technical guidance to clients while helping build support processes.

Lead and scale Astra's finance function: set financial strategy, capital planning, FP&A, treasury and settlement operations, accounting controls, fundraising and investor reporting, payments economics modeling, and build a finance team and processes to support rapid growth.