Pillar
Fintech & PaymentsDirect Greenhouse career site

Staff Software Engineer - Full Stack

Pay
$180,000 – $300,000 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

  • React
  • TypeScript
  • NextJS
  • AI/LLM integration
  • front-end performance

Also useful

  • Golang
  • WebSockets
  • real-time streaming

Stated benefits & perks

  • Health
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • 401k
  • Unlimited pto

Overview

  • Role: Product Engineer Lead
  • 5 days a week in NYC HQ
  • Base salary: $180k-$300k
  • Equity: Competitive Initial Equity Package + refreshers
  • 4+ Years of Experience

What You'll Do

  • Own core product features end-to-end - from concept and architecture to shipping, iteration, and scaling
  • Architect and build high-performance UIs that render automated hedge recommendations, track open positions, and show real time marketdata
  • Lead the rebuild and evolution of product architecture across the stack-including UI foundations and backend APIs-to enable speed, reliability, and scale
  • Work directly with founders, and customers to define product direction and translate complex risk workflows into intuitive experiences
  • Lead the development of AI-enabled features, integrating LLMs and model-driven insights into mission-critical operator workflows
  • Drive engineering best practices, mentor other engineers, and help shape Pillar's product and technical culture

What We are Looking For

  • Product Ownership: You have a proven track record of building products and leading 0 -> 1 initiatives
  • Full Stack Experience: A strong background in React/Typescript and familiarity with NextJS, and in building complex, performant UIs. Comfortable working across the stack, including back-end API's and integrations, but with a bias towards front-end
  • AI-Enabled Product Development: Experience and interest in building AI enabled products, which leverage AI to solve real problems for customers
  • Bias for Speed and Ownership: Value for shipping fast and willingness to problem solve
  • Teamwork and Communication: Enjoy working with and leading teams as well as working individually, and are able to clearly communicate with others.

Nice to Have

  • Familiarity with Golang
  • Real-time rendering with streaming/websockets
  • Prior Fintech experience

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, DST Global 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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