Quantitative Software Engineer Lead
Pillar · New York City · $225,000–$375,000 (stated in the posting)
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