Software Engineer - AWS, JavaScript, Node.js, React.js

About Astrada

Astrada, a unified API across the major card networks, provides access to real-time payment data for software companies to create new financial use cases. With an initial focus on spend management, spend management platforms use Astrada’s unified API to create a “bring your own card” experience, enabling their customers to connect their preferred credit cards with their spend management software. Astrada operates in the US, UK, and Portugal and is backed by leading Fintech investors including Bain Capital Ventures, Nyca Partners, and QED Investors.

Role Overview

We are looking for a Software Engineer who wants to be part of this journey. This is a contract position and the candidate should be within 1 hour of GMT timezone.

Responsibilities

• Build customer-centric, secure, and reliable software with system and API design in mind
• Evolve our front-end cardholder experience
• Participate in all team events, remaining aware and actively contributing to the team’s roadmap
• Design, build, maintain, document, and own reliable, fault-tolerant software solutions
• Deploy software safely while controlling product quality by applying monitoring, test automation, and deployment techniques
• Contribute to and pair with team members on work items, namely with solution design, implementation, code reviews, and testing
• Work with Product Managers and business stakeholders to identify product opportunities and develop the respective solution space within Astrada’s platform
• Collaborate with peers across the company to identify and build on improvements to processes and systems
• Guide and manage our engineering partnerships with our clients, facilitating collaboration and integration strategies
• Apply incident management best practices and track learnings to include within the team’s solution design practices and quality controls
• Be an advocate of prioritizing initiatives in line with the company’s goals, identifying their business value, and getting buy-in from the broader team
• Participate in hiring activities by reviewing hiring challenges and interviewing candidates

Qualifications

• 3 to 5 years of experience as a Software Engineer
• Ability to build and maintain systems using a high-level programming language
• Knowledge of how to build React applications and CSS
• Ability to write high-quality code, including test automation
• Experience writing tests and building test automation
• Experience with at least one cloud provider (Azure, Google Cloud, and AWS) and Infrastructure-as-Code
• Experience with scalable and distributed solutions
• A growth mindset
• Being a team player

Nice to Have

• Production experience with Javascript, Typescript / Node.js
• Previous exposure to distributed systems and API economy
• Experience with Function-as-a-Service services
• Experience with Continuous Deployment tools and/or Continuous Deployment
• Experience with Continuous Integration tools and/or Continuous Integration
• Solid knowledge of Domain Driven Design
• Production experience with AWS (Lambda and/or DynamoDB)
• Previous experience in startup environment
• Previous experience in Fintech companies