Software Engineer

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:

You’ll be responsible for building and maintaining the systems that power everything at Column - from our payments stack to developer tools to core platform services. This role is perfect for someone who thrives at the intersection of infrastructure, software, and financial systems. Expect to own core parts of our infrastructure and shape the technical foundation of a company moving billions of dollars per day.

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

WHAT YOU’LL DO

- Build and maintain critical infrastructure: compute, storage, networking, security, and observability systems

- Own core banking infrastructure, including direct integrations with the Federal Reserve and real-time payment networks

- Design and implement CI/CD pipelines, developer tooling, and release engineering workfl...