Engineering Manager

Astra Finance

Engineering Manager leading a team at Astra's fintech platform. Building mission-critical financial systems while maintaining hands-on technical involvement in high-volume payment processing.

Posted 6/4/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorLeadWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudDistributed SystemsGoogle Cloud PlatformMicroservicesNoSQLPythonSQL

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Contribute to the codebase as a technical force multiplier: filling gaps, improving quality, and modeling engineering standards.
Lead and Develop Your Team: Manage a team of backend engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence, ownership, and continuous growth. Conduct regular 1:1s, provide mentorship, and support career development across all levels of the team.
Architect Critical Financial Systems: Design and implement payment processing, fraud detection, and compliance systems that handle millions of dollars daily with strict regulatory requirements — and guide your team in doing the same.
Drive Technical Decisions: Own architecture decisions that impact the entire platform, establishing best practices and engineering standards as the organization scales.
Stay Hands-On: Contribute directly to complex engineering work — this is not a purely managerial role. You'll write code, participate in design reviews, and remain an active technical voice on the team.
Lead Cross-Domain Solutions: Coordinate complex interactions between payments, fraud detection, user management, and compliance systems across a distributed microservices architecture.
Partner Across the Organization: Collaborate closely with product, compliance, and other engineering teams to design systems that meet both business and regulatory requirements.
Build Engineering Culture: Establish coding standards, design patterns, and engineering practices that will define the team's culture from the ground up.
Manage Delivery: Balance technical quality with business velocity — plan engineering work, remove blockers, and ensure the team ships reliably.

Requirements

What you’ll need

7+ years of software engineering experience building complex, production systems
2+ years of experience leading an engineering team, including performance management and hiring
Demonstrated experience as a player-coach — comfortable moving between technical execution and team leadership
Proven track record of solving complex, cross-domain engineering challenges in production environments
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field required
Master's degree in Computer Science or Engineering from an accredited university highly preferred
Backend Development: Python (we use Python 3), strong understanding of web frameworks and APIs
Database Design: Experience with both NoSQL and SQL databases
Cloud Infrastructure: Google Cloud Platform or similar cloud platforms
Architecture Patterns: Domain-driven design, clean architecture, CQRS
System Design: Ability to design systems that balance performance, maintainability, and business requirements
Distributed Systems: Event-driven architectures, microservices, and high-scale system design
Strong communicator who can translate complex technical concepts for non-technical stakeholders
Experience setting technical direction and building alignment across engineering and product teams
Ability to hire, onboard, and grow engineering talent
Comfortable navigating ambiguity and making decisions with incomplete information.

Benefits

Comp & perks

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 mentor team members
Modern tech stack - work with cutting-edge cloud technologies
Mission-driven - build systems that power financial innovation

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Hard Skills & Tools

Pythonweb frameworksAPIsNoSQL databasesSQL databasesGoogle Cloud Platformdomain-driven designclean architectureCQRSmicroservices

Soft Skills

team leadershipmentorshipcommunicationproblem-solvingcollaborationperformance managementdecision-makingnavigating ambiguitytechnical directionbuilding alignment

Certifications

Bachelor's degree in Computer ScienceBachelor's degree in EngineeringMaster's degree in Computer ScienceMaster's degree in Engineering