Software Engineer (Travel Heavy)

Column; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 130,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive health, dental, and viz

Family planning and fertility benefits

Rent subsidy

FSA and HSA options

401k with brokerage

Flexible time-off

Sabbatical program

Parental leave

Backup childcare reimbursements

Catered lunches and dinners

Commuter benefits

Team building events

Job summary

Column is a bank and software company based in San Francisco, building modern fintech infrastructure. We are a lean team with 11 engineers and potential to add 1–2 more this year.

You will work across the stack, partner with customers, and shape product decisions while delivering polished software that scales billions in daily processing. This role is SF-based with regular travel, often embedded on-site for extended periods.

Qualifications

• End-to-end ownership of problems, from conversation with customers to final software delivery.
• Ability to shape product decisions and communicate trade-offs to stakeholders.
• Experience delivering polished, reliable software that scales.
• Familiarity with APIs and systems powering fintech platforms.

Responsibilities

• Own problems end to end, from idea to implementation.
• Influence what we build and how customers interact with Column.
• Build reliable software that solves real-world fintech challenges.

Skills

End-to-end ownership

Customer interaction

Software development

APIs

Job description

About Column

For companies building financial technology and transforming the financial services space, the biggest bottleneck to their growth and innovation is often the underlying banks and infrastructure stack they rely on. We have spent our careers founding and scaling companies like Plaid, Square, Meta, Blend, and affirm, and have seen this problem firsthand — builders and developers needing to partner with traditional banks, and creating API and abstraction layers over the patchwork that is the bank, its core, and many other vendors. All of this results in a complex (and often expensive) banking supply chain involving a user, fintech, BaaS middleware provider, bank, core and the Federal Reserve.

At Column, we set out to simplify and fix this. We are a bank and a software company built from the ground up, offering builders and developers technology-forward banking solutions that cut out the hundreds of vendors, middleware providers, and abstraction layers. This means a safer, more transparent, and less costly banking supply chain. Come build with us!

The opportunity:

We’re a lean and experienced team. We like our current team size of 11 engineers but are open to adding 1-2 more strong engineers to the team this year.

You'll work across the stack, from customer-facing applications and developer experiences to the APIs and systems that power them. You'll partner closely with customers to understand their needs, move quickly from idea to implementation, and build solutions that make complex financial infrastructure feel simple.

This role is perfect for an engineer who enjoys owning problems end to end — talking to customers, shaping product decisions, and building polished, reliable software that solves real-world problems. You'll have the opportunity to influence what we build, how customers interact with Column, and the technical direction of a platform processing billions of dollars per day.

This position will be based in our San Francisco office in the Presidio, with regular travel throughout the United Sates. You can expect to be on the road 50%+ of the time, often embedded on-site for 2–4 weeks at a time.

Read more about Life @ Column and our hiring process here.

What you’ll get from us:

• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision plans, including options that are 100% covered by Column for you and 100% covered for your dependents!

• Comprehensive family planning and fertility benefits via partnership with Carrot, including reimbursement of up to $20,000 in qualified expenses

• Up to $2,000 (post-tax) monthly rent subsidy for employees living within 2 miles of Column’s office

• FSA and HSA account options to enable use of pre-tax money for medical and dependent care expenses

• 401k plan, including self-directed brokerage options

• Flexible time-off policy - take the time off that you want and need to relax and recharge

• Sabbatical Program - Reach your 5-year anniversary to take up to 8 weeks of fully paid leave to rest, recharge, and pursue personal interest - with full salary and benefits

• 100% paid parental leave, including 16 weeks for birth mothers, 12 weeks for primary caregivers, and 8 weeks for secondary caregivers

• Up to $4,500 in annual reimbursements for backup childcare

• Catered lunches and dinners for SF employees

• Commuter benefits, including paid transportation to-and-from the office

• Regular team building events, including annual offsite

Pay transparency:

Compensation packages at Column include base salary, equity, and benefits. New hire offers are made based on a candidate's experience, expertise, geographic location, and internal pay equity relative to peers.

The annual US base salary range for this role is $130,000-$250,000 + equity.

We look forward to hearing from you

Column is committed to working with the best and brightest people from the broadest talent pool possible. We value bringing together a team with different perspectives, educational backgrounds, and life experiences, and believe a diversity of ideas is what allows us to develop the best solutions. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply.

If you need assistance or a reasonable accommodation during the application and recruiting process, please reach out to [e-mail].

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