About the role
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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