Backend Engineer
Astra (Astra Space, Inc.) (company site, opens in a new tab)3+ yrsRemoteDirect career pageEst. 12–22 LPA
Posted 1d ago
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About This Role
- Design, build, test, deploy, and maintain backend features across payments, fraud detection, compliance, and user management within a distributed microservices architecture.
- Integrate with financial partners and APIs, managing edge cases critical to moving real money.
- Contribute to technical design and architecture discussions, focusing on improving performance, reliability, and observability of backend systems.
Minimum Requirements
- 3+ years professional experience building production backend systems.
- Proficiency with Python 3, web frameworks (Flask), SQL/NoSQL databases, and cloud platforms (Google Cloud Platform or similar).
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Ability and willingness to travel up to ~15% annually.
Ideal Candidate Profile
- Experienced engineer who independently delivers complex backend features from ambiguous requirements to production in a fintech or similarly regulated domain.
- Familiar with distributed systems, event-driven architectures, domain-driven design, and clean architecture patterns.
- Comfortable working on financial systems involving payments, fraud detection, compliance, banking integrations, or high transaction volume platforms.