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Engineering Manager
Astra · United States
About The Role
Join our team as an Engineering Manager, where you'll lead and grow our engineering team while remaining hands-on in the architecture and development of complex financial systems. This player-coach role involves driving technical direction, mentoring your team, and contributing meaningfully as an engineer. You'll design cross-domain solutions, manage a team of backend engineers, and collaborate closely with product, compliance, and other engineering teams. This is a remote position with opportunities for professional growth and the chance to work with cutting-edge cloud technologies.
- Contribuer à la direction technique et à l'architecture des systèmes financiers complexes.
- Gérer une équipe d'ingénieurs backend, favoriser une culture d'excellence technique et de croissance continue.
- Concevoir et mettre en œuvre des systèmes de traitement des paiements, de détection de la fraude et de conformité.
- This role requires deep systems thinking, technical leadership, and the proven ability to both build sophisticated systems and build the engineers who build them
- Demonstrated experience as a player-coach — comfortable moving between technical execution and team leadership
- 7+ years of software engineering experience building complex, production systems
- 2+ years of experience leading an engineering team, including performance management and hiring
- Proven track record of solving complex, cross-domain engineering challenges in production environments
- Distributed Systems: Event-driven architectures, microservices, and high-scale system design
- Database Design: Experience with both NoSQL and SQL databases
- Financial Regulations: Understanding of AML, KYC, PCI DSS, or similar regulatory frameworks
- Master's degree in Computer Science or Engineering from an accredited university highly preferred
- We're looking for engineers who are excited by complex systems problems and have the educational background and experience to handle sophisticated challenges. If you're passionate about building mission-critical financial infrastructure and want to have a direct impact on our technical direction, we'd love to hear from you
- High-Scale Systems: Experience with systems processing high transaction volumes
- Comfortable navigating ambiguity and making decisions with incomplete information
- Third-Party Integrations: Experience coordinating multiple external service integrations
- Experience setting technical direction and building alignment across engineering and product teams
- Backend Development: Python (we use Python 3), strong understanding of web frameworks and APIs
- Strong communicator who can translate complex technical concepts for non-technical stakeholders
- Ability to hire, onboard, and grow engineering talent
- 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
- Banking Integrations: Experience with financial APIs and money movement systems
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field required
- Financial Systems: Payment processing, fraud detection, or compliance systems
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