Staff Software Engineer - Full Stack

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

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.

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