# Quantitative Software Engineer Lead at Pillar

Quantitative Software Engineer Lead at Pillar in New York, NY. Remote, paying $225k–$375k. Posted January 2, 2026.

- Company: Pillar
- Location: New York, NY
- Workplace: Remote
- Pay: $225k–$375k
- Experience: 4+ years
- Posted: 2026-01-02
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/stratoslabsinc/jobs/4075487009
- Source: https://jobmagic.ai/jobs/quantitative-software-engineer-lead-pillar-53rj3b

## 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, 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.

## Description

### 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