• The Sr Consultant – Technical Architecture provides hands-on solution design, technical implementation support, and workstream leadership across Origin’s utility client projects. • Requires strong technical depth within the Meter-to-Cash ecosystem, solid consulting maturity, and the ability to translate business requirements into practical, scalable technical solutions. • Collaborates closely with other Technical Architects, Functional Architects, and project teams to ensure consistent solution patterns, high-quality delivery, and effective execution. • Designs and implements technical solutions within Origin’s technology ecosystem, ensuring alignment with client requirements, project constraints, and industry best practices. • Leads technical workstreams, driving tasks to completion with consistency, follow-through, and attention to detail. • Applies analytical thinking to solve complex problems and deliver practical, scalable solutions. • Serves as a trusted technical SME for client stakeholders, articulating solution approaches, constraints, and trade-offs with clarity and professionalism. • Learns the architecture, components, operational processes, and support model of Origin's SaaS platform.

Role Description As a Lead Backend Engineer for our Fleet team, you will be a technical architect behind the systems that power our Open NDR Platform. You will bridge the gap between complex network data and seamless user experiences by overseeing the development of our centralized management platform. By leading high-impact projects and collaborating across functions, you will ensure that our platform provides defenders with the intuitive tools they need to disrupt attacks in real-time. - Drive End-to-End Architecture: Lead the technical design, implementation, and operation of a centralized Sensor management platform known as Fleet. Responsible for Sensor lifecycle management, configuration, and real-time communication. - Build High-Performance APIs: Design and develop REST and GraphQL APIs to power service to service communication, enable top-notch user experience, and manage configurations through various supported authentication models. - Technical Leadership & Mentorship: Provide mentorship to other engineers through design guidance, rigorous code reviews, and the promotion of performant, maintainable coding standards. - Security-First Engineering: Evaluate new projects and architectural changes for security implications, working closely with cross-functional teams to mitigate risks while balancing value and effort. - Operational Excellence: Own the lifecycle of your features from design to production, implementing automated test suites, CI/CD pipelines, and proactive monitoring/alerting mechanisms. - UX & Product Collaboration: Partner with UX design teams and Product Managers to refine epics and translate wireframes into backend requirements for complex user flows. - Threat Intelligence Orchestration: Manage and distribute threat intelligence feeds (Zeek Intel, Suricata, Yara, etc.). Qualifications - 8+ years of professional software development experience, primarily on Linux or Unix-style platforms, with a track record in senior or lead roles. - Deep expertise in Golang including experience with multi-threaded applications in production. - Proven experience with formal API specifications such as OpenAPI. - Proficiency with both Relational (SQL) and NoSQL databases. - Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent professional experience). Requirements - You embody "low ego results," "tireless service," and "applied curiosity" in every interaction. - You care deeply about building backend systems that help users understand complex data quickly and make thoughtful tradeoffs in service of usability. - You think beyond individual components, understanding how backend state, data, and API architecture work together across a large application. - You can weigh conflicting constraints and make rapid, high-impact decisions in a fast-paced, dynamic environment. - You thrive in a collaborative environment, using your communication skills to influence product direction, align distributed teams, and influence technical outcomes. - You take pride in writing clear, well-structured, and maintainable code, prioritizing long-term quality and code health. Benefits - Compensation Range: $175,000 — $229,000 USD. - Equity and additional benefits will also be awarded.

• Design, develop and implement business logic for Versapay’s core payment gateway and related services using C#, .NET 4.8 and modern .NET Core frameworks • Develop new features, maintain and enhance functionality across different product modules • Implement new features, improve existing functionality, and fix defects in the payment gateway and related applications • Write clean, well‑structured, well‑tested code with a strong focus on long‑term maintainability • Work closely with Product, Design, and other Engineering teams to translate business requirements into technical solutions • Contribute to technical design discussions and help evolve system architecture in collaboration with Senior and Principal Engineers • Identify and reduce technical debt while balancing near‑term delivery with long‑term goals • Support modernization efforts, including the evolution of legacy components toward more modular, service‑oriented designs • Ensure appropriate levels of performance, scalability, resiliency, logging, monitoring, and security • Continuously improve CI/CD pipelines, testing strategies, and operational readiness

Title: Senior Backend Engineer Location: Remote - US Only Department: Engineering Compensation - $160K – $220K • Offers Equity Job Description: Senior Backend Engineer Location: Remote (US) Type: Full-time Experience: 5+ years About Astra Astra is a high-impact engineering team building mission-critical financial infrastructure. Our fintech platform powers payment processing, fraud detection, and financial compliance for businesses handling 100M+ in weekly transaction volume. We maintain 99.9%+ uptime, process complex cross-border payments, and coordinate with multiple third-party financial services while meeting strict regulatory requirements. The Role We're looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to architect and build complex financial systems that process millions of dollars daily. You'll be one of our core engineers designing cross-domain solutions that coordinate payments, fraud detection, compliance, and user management across our distributed microservices architecture. This role requires deep systems thinking, technical leadership, and the ability to solve complex engineering challenges that span multiple domains and external integrations. What You'll Do - 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 What We're Looking For Senior Backend Engineer Requirements - 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 Education - Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field required - Master's degree in Computer Science or Engineering from an accredited university highly preferred Technical Skills - Backend Development: Python (we use Python 3), strong understanding of web frameworks and APIs - Database Design: Experience with 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 Preferred Experience - 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 Why This Role Matters - Direct Impact: You'll be a big part of a small engineering team building systems that power a growing fintech platform - Architecture Influence: Lead technical decisions that will scale with our business - Complex Problems: Work on sophisticated challenges that few engineers get to solve - Team Building: Establish engineering practices and culture from the ground up - Financial Innovation: Build systems that enable new financial products and services What We Offer - 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 Remote Work and Culture Astra is a remote-first company hiring only within the U.S. We value thoughtful collaboration, clarity, and initiative. We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer and are committed to building a diverse and inclusive team. How to Apply 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.