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Forward Deployed Engineer

Column· Product & Engineering
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San Francisco, CA$130k - $250k + equityFull-timePosted 2w ago

About the role

frontline engineering role at Column working directly with customers to design, build, and launch products on Column's API-driven banking stack. On-site with customers, with frequent travel, contributing code, debugging payment flows, and turning field learnings into platform improvements.

Responsibilities

  • Work directly with partner engineering teams to design, build and launch products with Column's state-of-the-art banking stack
  • Act as the technical owner for strategic customers from onboarding to launch, unblocking them on architecture, ledgering, reconciliation and edge cases in money movement
  • Write production-quality code, that speeds up integrations and grows into reusable product
  • Turn patterns from the field into product and platform improvements, working closely with engineering to shape our APIs, docs and developer experience
  • Advise customers on how to build safe, compliant and resilient financial products in a regulated environment
  • Represent Column in conversations with customer executives and engineering leaders, and build trusted, long-term relationships

Qualifications

  • Strong engineering fundamentals, ideally with experience in backend systems, APIs or infrastructure
  • Product thinking: you look past the immediate ask to the underlying problem and the best solution, for the customer and for Column
  • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills. You can explain complex systems clearly to an engineer or an executive
  • Executive presence and the confidence to lead high-stakes customer conversations
  • Strong project management skills. You can run several customer engagements at once and keep each one moving
  • A self-starter mindset. You're comfortable with ambiguity and with building process where none exists yet
  • Experience with payments, banking or financial infrastructure is a plus
  • Ideally fluent in either Spanish, French or Russian.

Skills

Required:Backend systemsProduct thinkingCommunicationProject management
Nice to have:Payments/Banking familiarityLanguage proficiency

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health, dental, and vision plans, including options 100% covered for you and dependents
  • Comprehensive family planning and fertility benefits via Carrot with reimbursement up to $20,000
  • Up to $2,000 post-tax monthly rent subsidy for living within 2 miles of the office
  • FSA and HSA options
  • 401k plan with self-directed brokerage options
  • Flexible time-off policy
  • Sabbatical program (up to 8 weeks at 5-year anniversary)
  • 100% paid parental leave (16 weeks for birth mothers, 12 weeks primary caregiver, 8 weeks secondary caregiver)
  • Up to $4,500 annual backup childcare reimbursements
  • Catered lunches and dinners for SF employees
  • Commuter benefits including paid transportation to/from the office
  • Regular team building events including annual offsite
Last updated Oct 7, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Column

The developer infrastructure bank

The only nationally chartered bank built to enable developers and builders to create new financial products

Payment ProcessingLendingBanking InfrastructureAPIsFinancial Products
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