Pillar

AI-driven automated risk hedging platform

Quantitative Software Engineer Lead

Quantitative DevelopmentConfirmed live in the last 24 hours

Full-timeNew York, NY, USA

About the Job

Requirements

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, with the ability to work collaboratively to unblock work, drive momentum, and ensure important work is completed.
Ability to navigate ambiguity, learn quickly, and independently figure things out in fast-moving environments.
Problem-solving skills and the ability to break down and tackle complex tasks.
At least 4 years of experience.

Responsibilities

Lead development of the trading system as the company scales into new markets and onboards new customers.
Build and optimize low-latency distributed systems to minimize risk and achieve optimal prices on fills.
Shape the engineering culture, hire and mentor engineers, and collaborate directly with the founders to solve challenging financial technology problems.
Own critical infrastructure end-to-end, from market data ingestion to order execution and risk monitoring, supporting clients' businesses around the clock.

Desired Qualifications

Familiarity with Golang, Python, C++, gRPC, PostgreSQL, Kafka, and AWS.
Experience building trading systems.
Domain experience with derivatives, crypto, equities, or other financial products.

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

About the Company

Pillar

AI-driven automated risk hedging platform

Pillar provides a unified risk management platform for businesses exposed to volatility in currency, commodity, and freight markets. It uses AI to ingest data from multiple sources—contracts, cash flows, ERP systems, and even WhatsApp—and continuously assesses exposure, then builds and manages hedge portfolios that adjust in real time to market conditions and risk tolerances. It differentiates itself by integrating diverse data streams and offering precise hedges tied to exact transaction quantities with automatic adjustments, all under a registered Commodity Trading Advisor (CTA) and National Futures Association member. Its goal is to replace manual, fragmented hedging with automated, data-driven risk management that operates continuously for commodity-driven producers and manufacturers.

Company size: 11-50
Company stage: Seed
Total funding: $20M
Headquarters: New York City, United States
Founded: 2023

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