Full-Time
Senior Backend Engineer
Astra
11-50 employees
Real-time payment infrastructure for developers
Compensation Overview
$160k - $220k/yr
Remote in USA
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- 5+ years of software engineering experience building complex, production systems
- Demonstrated systems engineering experience solving complex, cross-domain challenges
- Strong foundation in algorithms, data structures, and computer science fundamentals
- Experience with distributed systems, event-driven architectures, and microservices
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field required
- Architect Critical Financial Systems: Design and implement payment processing, fraud detection, and compliance systems that handle millions of dollars daily with strict regulatory requirements
- Lead Cross-Domain Solutions: Coordinate complex interactions between payments, fraud detection, user management, and compliance systems
- Drive Technical Decisions: Lead architecture decisions that impact our entire platform and establish best practices for a growing team
- Mentor Engineers: Guide junior engineers and establish coding standards, design patterns, and engineering practices
- Optimize System Performance: Improve reliability and performance across our distributed microservices architecture
- Collaborate Across Teams: Work closely with product and compliance teams to design systems that meet business and regulatory requirements
- Master's degree in Computer Science or Engineering from an accredited university highly preferred
- Financial Systems: Payment processing, fraud detection, or compliance systems
- Financial Regulations: Understanding of AML, KYC, PCI DSS, or similar regulations
- Banking Integrations: Experience with financial APIs and money movement systems
- High-Scale Systems: Experience with systems processing high transaction volumes
- Third-Party Integrations: Experience coordinating multiple external service integrations
Astra Finance provides payments infrastructure that enables instant, secure money transfers. Its vertically integrated platform lets developers and businesses embed real-time payment capabilities into their products, handling fast, secure transactions through a scalable network. The company differentiates itself by focusing on infrastructure for real-time payments—offering a developer-friendly, end-to-end solution that companies can integrate rather than standalone consumer services. Astra’s goal is to be the backbone for fast, reliable financial transactions, helping clients move money quickly and safely.
Company Size
11-50
Company Stage
Debt Financing
Total Funding
$45M
Headquarters
Menlo Park, California
Founded
2016
Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Treasury Prime integration adds push-to-card for embedded banking.
- Cross River partnership processes $100M GPV, 650K transfers yearly.
- $10M Series A from FPV Ventures fuels $2B payment run rate.
What critics are saying
- Cross River terminates partnership, cutting debit disbursements immediately.
- Visa Direct hikes fees amid FedNow, eroding card-to-card margins.
- Finastra APIs commoditize developer instant payments within 18 months.
What makes Astra unique
- Proprietary API enables instant card-to-card funding via Visa Direct.
- Vertically integrated platform supports Visa Direct, ACH, RTP, FedNow.
- Embeds real-time payments for developers without compliance burdens.
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↓ -3%Treasury Prime, an embedded banking software company, announced a strategic collaboration with Astra, a technology company that offers advanced instant payment solutions.With Astra’s technology, Treasury Prime customers now “have access to instant account funding and instant disbursements via push-to-card capabilities.”This feature marks a significant step forward in “streamlining payment processes for banks and enterprises.”By enabling push-to-card transactions, Treasury Prime’s customers “can now provide their end-users with faster and more efficient funding options compared to traditional methods like ACH transfers.”Through the partnership, Astra enables Treasury Prime’s customers “to elevate their customer experiences by facilitating swift account funding for end-users.”Mark Vermeersch, Chief Platform Officer at Treasury Prime, said:“The speed, efficiency, and accessibility of Astra’s transfer technology, coupled with our embedded finance marketplace, stand to transform the way businesses and end users conduct transactions, paving the way for a more dynamic and connected financial landscape.”Gil Akos, co-founder and CEO at Astra, said:“Instant payments technology represents the future of financial transactions, offering instant access to funds with heightened efficiency, security, and convenience. Through this collaboration with Treasury Prime, we look forward to empowering businesses to embrace the power of instant transactions, driving growth, enhancing customer experiences, and fostering financial inclusion.”This partnership comes on the heels of Treasury Prime’s recent partnership announcements with Sardine and Checkout.com, “further building out the firm’s industry leading partner marketplace.”Earlier this year, Treasury Prime introduced OneKey Banking, a multi-bank solution, and closed a successful $40 million Series C funding round.As covered last month, Treasury Prime, a embedded banking software company, today announced its strategic partnership with Liberty Bank, N.A., a full-service commercial bank supporting markets across California, to offer innovative embedded banking solutions to customers in the fintech space.Through the collaboration, Liberty Bank, N.A. will work “with businesses on the Treasury Prime platform to create new channels for end users to interact and consume its comprehensive suite of financial services, including Deposit Accounts, ACH, and Wires.”
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 18, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Treasury Prime , a leading embedded banking software company, announced today a strategic collaboration with Astra , a technology company that offers advanced instant payment solutions. With Astra's technology, Treasury Prime customers now have access to instant account funding and instant disbursements via push-to-card capabilities.This new feature marks a significant step forward in streamlining payment processes for banks and enterprises. By enabling push-to-card transactions, Treasury Prime's customers can now provide their end-users with faster and more efficient funding options compared to traditional methods like ACH transfers. Through the partnership, Astra enables Treasury Prime's customers to elevate their customer experiences by facilitating swift account funding for end-users."The speed, efficiency, and accessibility of Astra's transfer technology, coupled with our embedded finance marketplace, stand to transform the way businesses and end users conduct transactions, paving the way for a more dynamic and connected financial landscape," said Mark Vermeersch, Chief Platform Officer at Treasury Prime."Instant payments technology represents the future of financial transactions, offering instant access to funds with heightened efficiency, security, and convenience. Through this collaboration with Treasury Prime, we look forward to empowering businesses to embrace the power of instant transactions, driving growth, enhancing customer experiences, and fostering financial inclusion," said Gil Akos, co-founder and CEO at Astra.This partnership comes on the heels of Treasury Prime's recent partnership announcements with Sardine and Checkout.com, further building out the firm's industry leading partner marketplace
SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Astra, a leading provider of instant payments infrastructure in the U.S., was named to the Embedded Fintech 50, a list launched by GGV Capital in partnership with Crunchbase, to recognize the most promising fintech companies in the eyes of startup investors.GGV Capital convened 57 investment firms to nominate and vote on the 50 honorees. Having raised more than $12 billion collectively, the Embedded Fintech 50 demonstrates the enthusiasm of venture capital investors in the growth and innovation of this sector. In celebration, honorees will ring the Closing Bell at the Nasdaq MarketSite today.“As the financial landscape continues to evolve, fintechs and other financial services organizations are met with the challenge of providing faster account funding to their users, which comes with a slew of hurdles around product engineering, compliance overhead, and payment operations,” said Gil Akos, co-founder and CEO of Astra. “At Astra, we have successfully pioneered a solution that fills this critical industry gap, enabling businesses to provide fast, secure, and frictionless transfers. This incredible honor from GGV Capital underscores our team’s dedication to continuous innovation for embedded payment capabilities, and we are thrilled to be recognized amongst the other impressive fintech companies on this list.”Through a suite of pre-built automations, transfer orchestration between banks, and integrated anti-fraud, Astra’s vertically integrated API enables developers to achieve a level of efficient financial functionality that was previously unattainable. Astra’s solution makes it simple and straightforward to add accelerated and risk mitigated transfers into any application.To date, Astra has completed more than $250 million of automated transfers with a 99.997% success rating – a 1,000X improvement over standard ACH failure rates
Astra, a leading provider of instant card-to-card funding as a service in the U.S., today announced a $10 million Series A funding round led by FPV Ve
Astra, a San Francisco, CA-based provider of instant card-to-card funding as a service in the U.S., raised $10M in Series A funding