Astra Finance

Product Lead – Platform

Astra Finance

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: United States

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Salary

💰 $140,000 - $225,000 per year

Job Level

Senior

About the role

  • Define and maintain Astra's API contract philosophy – versioning strategy, backwards compatibility standards, deprecation policies, and schema design principles
  • Write detailed platform specs that engineering can ship from: precise, edge-case-aware, and grounded in how real customers build
  • Own the platform roadmap – balancing foundational investments (auth, observability, extensibility) against customer-facing features and reliability work
  • Conduct technical discovery with Astra's most sophisticated customers to identify platform gaps and extensibility needs
  • Partner with engineering to review API design, maintain developer ergonomics standards, and hold the bar on platform quality
  • Work with solutions and implementation teams to understand where customers get stuck, break, or build workarounds – and translate that into platform requirements
  • Drive the developer experience roadmap in partnership with docs, solutions engineering, and DevRel functions as they mature
  • Represent platform strategy in customer conversations, partnership discussions, and technical due diligence processes

Requirements

  • 6+ years of product management experience, with at least 3 years building developer-facing platform or API products at a technical infrastructure company
  • Deep expertise in API design – REST, webhooks, event-driven architecture – and strong opinions about what makes a platform great to build on
  • Experience owning a platform roadmap across authentication, configuration, extensibility, and observability layers
  • Strong understanding of how infrastructure companies create lock-in through developer experience, not just features
  • Comfort reasoning about systems-level tradeoffs: latency vs. consistency, configurability vs. complexity, generality vs. opinionation
  • Track record of operating as a principal-level IC – setting direction, influencing without authority, and driving outcomes across engineering and go-to-market
  • Exceptional written communication; you can produce a platform spec that is simultaneously a product document and a technical contract
  • Payments context is a plus, not a requirement – but intellectual curiosity about how money moves is 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 supports Astra’s ability to scale responsibly
  • Professional growth opportunities in compliance and risk management
  • Mission-driven — build infrastructure that powers financial innovation while meeting the highest regulatory standards
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
API designRESTwebhooksevent-driven architectureplatform roadmap managementauthenticationconfigurationextensibilityobservabilitytechnical documentation
Soft Skills
written communicationinfluencing without authoritycustomer engagementtechnical discoveryproblem-solvingcollaborationstrategic thinkingattention to detailcustomer-focusedadaptability