Forward Deployed Engineer

The role

You will work with customers to understand their problems and help them build products on Column's APIs. You will write code, debug payment flows, design integrations, and spend time on-site with customers.

What you will do

• Work with partner engineering teams to design, build and launch products with Column's banking stack
• Act as technical owner for strategic customers from onboarding to launch
• Unblock customers on architecture, ledgering, reconciliation and edge cases in money movement
• Write production-quality code to speed up integrations and grow into reusable product
• Turn patterns from the field into product and platform improvements
• Advise customers on building safe, compliant and resilient financial products
• Represent Column in conversations with customer executives and engineering leaders

Required qualifications

• Strong engineering fundamentals
• Product thinking
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Executive presence and confidence to lead high-stakes customer conversations
• Strong project management skills
• Self-starter mindset

Nice to have

• Experience with payments, banking or financial infrastructure
• Fluent in either Spanish, French or Russian

Benefits

• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision plans
• Health plans 100% covered by Column for you and dependents
• Comprehensive family planning and fertility benefits via partnership with Carrot
• Reimbursement of up to $20,000 in qualified fertility expenses
• Up to $2,000 monthly rent subsidy for employees living within 2 miles of Column’s office
• FSA and HSA account options
• 401k plan including self-directed brokerage options
• Flexible time-off policy
• Sabbatical Program: up to 8 weeks of fully paid leave after 5-year anniversary
• 100% paid parental leave
• Up to $4,500 in annual reimbursements for backup childcare
• Catered lunches and dinners for SF employees

About the company

Column is a bank and a software company built from the ground up, offering technology-forward banking solutions. The company aims to simplify the banking supply chain for builders and developers.