Pillar

Quantitative Software Engineer Lead

New York, NY

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Role family: Engineering
Seniority: Lead / management
Stated salary: $225,000 – $375,000 per year
Country: US
Work mode: Remote-friendly
First seen by hirly: 3 Oct 2026

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Overview

Role: Quantitative Software Engineer Lead

5 days a week in NYC HQ

Base salary: $225k-375k

Equity: Competitive Initial Equity Package + refreshers

4+ Years of Experience

About Pillar

Pillar is building the next-generation commodity risk management stack for the $10T physical economy. We combine real-time marketdata with AI-powered exposure modeling and automated trade generation to arm operators with precise protection from volatility. From instant execution to continuous monitoring, alerts, and recommendations, Pillar turns complex market risk into a fully managed, always-on hedging engine.

We were founded in 2023 by the youngest macro market-maker at Barclays and a trading systems engineer at Coinbase, and have raised over $20M in capital from Andreesen Horowitz (a16z), Crucible Capital, Neo, Crossbeam Venture Partners and more.

What You’ll Do

Architect the future of commodity trading infrastructure: Lead development of our trading system as we start scaling in new markets and onboarding new customers.

Engineer at the edge of performance: Build and optimize low-latency distributed systems, ensuring our platform minimizes risk and gets optimal prices on fills.

Build and mentor a world-class team: Shape our engineering culture, hire and mentor talented engineers, and collaborate directly with founders to solve some of the most challenging problems in financial technology.

Own critical systems end-to-end: From market data ingestion to order execution and risk monitoring, you'll have autonomy over mission-critical infrastructure that keeps our clients' businesses running 24/7.

What We are Looking For

Deep understanding of data structures, algorithms, design patterns, and core systems fundamentals.

Extensive experience architecting and building complex financial systems with a focus on building and scaling low latency event driven distributed systems

Strong ownership and teamwork, ability to work collaboratively to unblock work, drive momentum, and make sure important things get over the finish line.

Demonstrated ability to navigate ambiguity, learn quickly, and independently figure things out in fast-moving environments.

Exceptional problem solving skills and ability to break down and tackle complex tasks.

Nice to Have

Familiarity with Golang, Python, C++, gRPC, PostgreSQL, Kafka, AWS

Experience building trading systems

Domain experience with derivatives, crypto, equities or other financial products

Benefits

💰 Competitive Salary & Equity

📈 401(k) Program

⚕️ Health, Dental, Vision and Life Insurance

⌚ Unlimited PTO and Flexible Hours

🍣 Paid lunch, coffee, snacks (and dinner if you’re staying late)

🏋️ Monthly Gym Stipend

🌄 Regular Team Off-Sites

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