Astera Holdings
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Base pay range
$150,000.00/yr - $500,000.00/yr Additional compensation types
Annual Bonus and Stock options Direct message the job poster from Astera Holdings Location:
Remote (Preference for New York) Reports to:
President and Chief Product Officer, Chief Technology Officer About Astera Holdings
Astera Holdings is a quantitative finance firm on a mission to redefine prediction markets—an emerging category of financial markets where people trade on the outcomes of real-world events. Our goal is to transform this space from one driven by speculation into a legitimate, scientific asset class. We are building what we aspire to be the "Renaissance Technologies of prediction markets" and are looking for elite, intellectually curious individuals to join us in engineering this new frontier. Our company operates on a synergistic, three-pillar structure: BetSmart:
Our consumer-facing DaaS application, designed to make smart betting simple and accessible. Astera Capital:
Our institutional asset management arm, built to generate absolute, uncorrelated returns. Astera Analytics:
Our premier B2B consulting partner, which deploys our core intelligence to solve complex enterprise challenges. These pillars work in concert to power the
Astera Flywheel , our core competitive advantage. Each subsidiary generates unique, proprietary data that is fed back into our central
Astera Intelligence Engine , making our models exponentially more powerful over time. Our culture is a "Meritocracy of Minds," built on Radical Intellectual Honesty, a Scientific Approach to Everything, and Lean Intensity. About the Role
As the Head of Engineering, you are the most senior technical architect and individual contributor at Astera Holdings. This is not a traditional management role; you are the hands-on "player-coach" responsible for the vision, architecture, and implementation of the entire technology stack that powers our company. You will be the primary builder of our core intellectual property—from the low-latency trading systems for Astera Capital to the scalable consumer backend for BetSmart and the advanced MLOps infrastructure for our R&D. This role is for a master engineer who wants to solve the hardest problems with their own hands and build the engine of a new financial vertical from a clean slate. You will have complete ownership of the technical direction and will be judged on the quality, scalability, and performance of the systems you build. What You\'ll Do
Architect and Build:
Lead the hands-on architectural design and implementation of all core systems, including our low-latency trading infrastructure, high-throughput data pipelines, and the scalable backend for the BetSmart consumer application. Write Production Code:
Act as the lead engineer on our most critical systems, writing clean, resilient, and performant code that sets the standard for the entire company. Own the End-to-End Pipeline:
Take ownership of the technical execution for our full quantitative lifecycle—from data ingestion and research infrastructure to algorithmic deployment and production monitoring. Establish Engineering Excellence:
Define and implement best practices for software development, including CI/CD, MLOps, site reliability (SRE), and robust security protocols across all of our platforms. Mentor and Lead by Example:
Guide and mentor a growing team of world-class engineers and quants through your deep technical expertise, rigorous code reviews, and a commitment to engineering excellence. Drive Technical Strategy:
Make critical decisions on technology, frameworks, and infrastructure, ensuring our stack is optimized for performance, scalability, and cost-effectiveness. Guarantee Operational Dominance:
Ensure the security, stability, scalability, and performance of all technical systems, personally leading the charge on our most complex engineering challenges. What You\'ll Bring
Exceptional Hands-On Expertise:
Proven experience as a senior individual contributor, architecting and building complex, data-intensive, low-latency systems from the ground up. Your primary passion is building, not managing. Deep Technical Proficiency:
Master-level knowledge of the modern technology stack, including cloud platforms (AWS/GCP), container orchestration (Kubernetes), data pipelines (Kafka), and multiple programming languages (e.g., Python, Rust, C++). Experience in Quantitative Finance:
Direct, hands-on experience building systems at a top hedge fund or proprietary trading firm is highly desirable. Full Quantitative Lifecycle Understanding:
A profound, practical understanding of the full quantitative research and development lifecycle, from data ingestion and backtesting to live production trading and performance monitoring. Architectural Vision:
The ability to design elegant, scalable systems from first principles, making strategic trade-offs between speed, complexity, and long-term maintainability. Cultural Alignment:
A strong alignment with our core values of Radical Intellectual Honesty and Lean Intensity, with an obsessive drive to solve the hardest problems through a scientific, data-driven approach. Seniority level
Executive Employment type
Full-time Job function
Finance and Sales Referrals increase your chances of interviewing at Astera Holdings by 2x New York, NY $240,000.00-$300,000.00 Head of Engineering (Remote, United States) New York, NY $250,000.00-$300,000.00 Sr Director, Quality Engineering and Engineering Excellence New York, United States $245,000.00-$260,000.00 Chief Engineering & Operational Excellence Officer (CEOE) New Hartford, NY $160,000.00-$170,000.00 New York, NY $192,000.00-$288,000.00 New York, United States $150,000.00-$170,000.00 New York, NY $196,000.00-$294,000.00
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$150,000.00/yr - $500,000.00/yr Additional compensation types
Annual Bonus and Stock options Direct message the job poster from Astera Holdings Location:
Remote (Preference for New York) Reports to:
President and Chief Product Officer, Chief Technology Officer About Astera Holdings
Astera Holdings is a quantitative finance firm on a mission to redefine prediction markets—an emerging category of financial markets where people trade on the outcomes of real-world events. Our goal is to transform this space from one driven by speculation into a legitimate, scientific asset class. We are building what we aspire to be the "Renaissance Technologies of prediction markets" and are looking for elite, intellectually curious individuals to join us in engineering this new frontier. Our company operates on a synergistic, three-pillar structure: BetSmart:
Our consumer-facing DaaS application, designed to make smart betting simple and accessible. Astera Capital:
Our institutional asset management arm, built to generate absolute, uncorrelated returns. Astera Analytics:
Our premier B2B consulting partner, which deploys our core intelligence to solve complex enterprise challenges. These pillars work in concert to power the
Astera Flywheel , our core competitive advantage. Each subsidiary generates unique, proprietary data that is fed back into our central
Astera Intelligence Engine , making our models exponentially more powerful over time. Our culture is a "Meritocracy of Minds," built on Radical Intellectual Honesty, a Scientific Approach to Everything, and Lean Intensity. About the Role
As the Head of Engineering, you are the most senior technical architect and individual contributor at Astera Holdings. This is not a traditional management role; you are the hands-on "player-coach" responsible for the vision, architecture, and implementation of the entire technology stack that powers our company. You will be the primary builder of our core intellectual property—from the low-latency trading systems for Astera Capital to the scalable consumer backend for BetSmart and the advanced MLOps infrastructure for our R&D. This role is for a master engineer who wants to solve the hardest problems with their own hands and build the engine of a new financial vertical from a clean slate. You will have complete ownership of the technical direction and will be judged on the quality, scalability, and performance of the systems you build. What You\'ll Do
Architect and Build:
Lead the hands-on architectural design and implementation of all core systems, including our low-latency trading infrastructure, high-throughput data pipelines, and the scalable backend for the BetSmart consumer application. Write Production Code:
Act as the lead engineer on our most critical systems, writing clean, resilient, and performant code that sets the standard for the entire company. Own the End-to-End Pipeline:
Take ownership of the technical execution for our full quantitative lifecycle—from data ingestion and research infrastructure to algorithmic deployment and production monitoring. Establish Engineering Excellence:
Define and implement best practices for software development, including CI/CD, MLOps, site reliability (SRE), and robust security protocols across all of our platforms. Mentor and Lead by Example:
Guide and mentor a growing team of world-class engineers and quants through your deep technical expertise, rigorous code reviews, and a commitment to engineering excellence. Drive Technical Strategy:
Make critical decisions on technology, frameworks, and infrastructure, ensuring our stack is optimized for performance, scalability, and cost-effectiveness. Guarantee Operational Dominance:
Ensure the security, stability, scalability, and performance of all technical systems, personally leading the charge on our most complex engineering challenges. What You\'ll Bring
Exceptional Hands-On Expertise:
Proven experience as a senior individual contributor, architecting and building complex, data-intensive, low-latency systems from the ground up. Your primary passion is building, not managing. Deep Technical Proficiency:
Master-level knowledge of the modern technology stack, including cloud platforms (AWS/GCP), container orchestration (Kubernetes), data pipelines (Kafka), and multiple programming languages (e.g., Python, Rust, C++). Experience in Quantitative Finance:
Direct, hands-on experience building systems at a top hedge fund or proprietary trading firm is highly desirable. Full Quantitative Lifecycle Understanding:
A profound, practical understanding of the full quantitative research and development lifecycle, from data ingestion and backtesting to live production trading and performance monitoring. Architectural Vision:
The ability to design elegant, scalable systems from first principles, making strategic trade-offs between speed, complexity, and long-term maintainability. Cultural Alignment:
A strong alignment with our core values of Radical Intellectual Honesty and Lean Intensity, with an obsessive drive to solve the hardest problems through a scientific, data-driven approach. Seniority level
Executive Employment type
Full-time Job function
Finance and Sales Referrals increase your chances of interviewing at Astera Holdings by 2x New York, NY $240,000.00-$300,000.00 Head of Engineering (Remote, United States) New York, NY $250,000.00-$300,000.00 Sr Director, Quality Engineering and Engineering Excellence New York, United States $245,000.00-$260,000.00 Chief Engineering & Operational Excellence Officer (CEOE) New Hartford, NY $160,000.00-$170,000.00 New York, NY $192,000.00-$288,000.00 New York, United States $150,000.00-$170,000.00 New York, NY $196,000.00-$294,000.00
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