Astra Finance

Senior Platform Engineer, Quality Systems

Astra Finance

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: United States

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Salary

💰 $160,000 - $220,000 per year

Job Level

About the role

  • Build Release Confidence Systems: Design and implement automated smoke tests and workflow validations for our most important payment flows, and integrate them into CI and release gates
  • Improve Environment Fidelity: Make testing and staging behave more like production by improving stability, data hygiene, environment health checks, and repeatable test scenarios
  • Develop Test Infrastructure: Build frameworks and harnesses for API and event-driven workflow testing, including partner simulations and contract checks where appropriate
  • Enable Developer Productivity: Build internal self-service tooling and automation that reduces manual steps, improves debugging workflows, and increases engineering velocity
  • Improve Release Observability and Documentation: Strengthen release dashboards, visibility, and documentation practices to improve triage, bug tracking, and regression prevention over time
  • Strengthen CI and Developer Workflows: Improve CI speed and signal, reduce flaky tests, and make failures easy to debug with useful artifacts and visibility
  • Add Operational Guardrails: Partner with engineering to define monitors, canaries, rollout strategies, and rollback patterns for higher-risk changes
  • Close the Loop on Regressions: Turn production regressions into durable prevention by adding automated checks, checklist steps, improved documentation, or better safety rails

Requirements

  • 5+ years of software engineering experience building and operating production systems
  • Demonstrated experience building test infrastructure, automation frameworks, CI gates, or developer productivity tooling
  • Strong foundation in systems engineering, debugging, and designing pragmatic solutions that improve reliability and velocity
  • Experience with distributed systems, asynchronous workflows, events, retries, and state transitions
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field required.
Benefits
  • Competitive compensation with equity in a growing fintech company
  • Remote-first culture with flexible working arrangements
  • Small team, big impact - your work directly shapes our platform
  • Professional growth - lead technical decisions and drive foundational improvements
  • Modern tech stack - work with cutting-edge cloud technologies
  • Mission-driven - build systems that power financial innovation
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
automated testingsmoke testsworkflow validationstest infrastructureAPI testingevent-driven workflowsautomation frameworksdebuggingCI gatesproduction systems
Soft Skills
problem-solvingcollaborationcommunicationreliability improvementvelocity enhancement