Astra
Product Lead, Platform
Remote - US Only
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 71 days ago
RailsSnowflakeAPI DevelopmentRESTAgentic AIProduct ManagementLeadershipCommunicationCollaboration
About the role
- This is an IC role with principal-level scope: you'll shape the architecture of how customers interact with Astra, how they configure and extend the platform, and how Astra scales to serve increasingly sophisticated builders.
- The right person thinks like a platform architect, writes like an API designer, and ships like someone who has felt the consequences of a bad developer experience at 2am.
- The control plane product: configuration surfaces, rule engines, programmable routing logic, and the levers customers use to customize money movement behavior
Responsibilities
- Define and maintain Astra's API contract philosophy - versioning strategy, backwards compatibility standards, deprecation policies, and schema design principles
- Own the platform roadmap - balancing foundational investments (auth, observability, extensibility) against customer-facing features and reliability work
- Partner with engineering to review API design, maintain developer ergonomics standards, and hold the bar on platform quality
- Drive the developer experience roadmap in partnership with docs, solutions engineering, and DevRel functions as they mature
- You'll work directly with the Leadership Team and partner deeply with engineering, solutions, and go-to-market.
- Exceptional written communication; you can produce a platform spec that is simultaneously a product document and a technical contract
- Experience building platform products at a BaaS, payments infrastructure, or developer tools company
- Background in workflow or rules-engine product design - if-this-then-that style programmability at the infrastructure layer
- Small team, big impact - your work directly supports Astra's ability to scale responsibly
- Mission-driven - build infrastructure that powers financial innovation while meeting the highest regulatory standards
Requirements
- 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
- Familiarity with the control plane / data plane architecture pattern as applied to developer platforms
- Payments context is a plus, not a requirement - but intellectual curiosity about how money moves is required
Nice to have
- Preferred Experience
Compensation
- Our platform processes billions in annual transaction volume with 99.9%+ uptime, powering real-time transfers, bank debits, card disbursements, and complex financial compliance systems.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation with equity in a growing fintech company.
- Remote-first culture with flexible working arrangements
Company info
- configuration surfaces, rule engines, programmable routing logic, and the levers customers use to customize money movement behavior
- how Astra communicates uptime, exposes status, and gives customers visibility into degradation
- You'll define the platform architecture of a company that has real ambitions to be category-defining infrastructure - the Snowflake of payments
- You'll work directly with the founding team and have a significant influence on product and engineering culture
- Astra is profitable at Series A - the growth trajectory is funded, not a bet on future capital raises
- Platform reliability and SLA products: how Astra communicates uptime, exposes status, and gives customers visibility into degradation
- Write detailed platform specs that engineering can ship from: precise, edge-case-aware, and grounded in how real customers build
- Conduct technical discovery with Astra's most sophisticated customers to identify platform gaps and extensibility needs
- Work with solutions and implementation teams to understand where customers get stuck, break, or build workarounds - and translate that into platform requirements
- you'll shape the architecture of how customers interact with Astra, how they configure and extend the platform, and how Astra scales to serve increasingly sophisticated builders.
- authentication, versioning, pagination, rate limiting, error taxonomy, and the developer contracts that customers build on
- delivery guarantees, retry logic, event schema design, and the observability customers need to build reliable integrations
Equal opportunity
- equal opportunity employer and are committed to building a diverse and inclusive team.
This listing is sourced directly from Astra's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.