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Quantitative Software Engineer Lead

Pay: $225,000 – $375,000 per year
Location: New York, NY · On-site
Job type: Full-time
Level: Lead / Staff
Experience: 4+ years
Listed: 30 days ago

Skills & highlights for this role

low-latency distributed systems
event-driven architecture
financial trading systems

Also useful

Golang
Python
C++
gRPC
PostgreSQL
Kafka
AWS

Stated benefits & perks

Health
Dental
Vision
401k match
Unlimited pto

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

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

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.

Read the original posting

From Pillar's careers page, first listed on Rolev.ai on October 10, 2026. Rolev.ai is not the employer.

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