What are the responsibilities and job description for the Software Engineer (Backend) position at Column?
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, SoFi, 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.
Below, you will find a complete breakdown of everything required of potential candidates, as well as how to apply Good luck.
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 nine engineers but we have a need for a talented Backend engineer to join us. We write mostly Go, but experience there isn’t that important (it’s a pretty easy language to learn). We generally prefer candidates with at least five years of production coding experience at a high-caliber and high-velocity team. We’ll require a take-home that does take time, so if that’s a non-starter for you we’re sorry. We find it the best way for you to show your skills, without being overly burdensome on the team! This role is San Francisco based and you’ll be expected to work out of our (awesome) Presidio-based office 3 days a week.
What you’ll need to be successful :
- Proven experience with a strongly typed back-end language, coupled with proficiency in SQL
- A track record of making independent product decisions and exhibiting strong self-management skills.
- Preferably, an interest and desire in the financial services / fintech industry is ideal, but not a requirement, as long as you have a desire to deeply learn our products and industry.
What you’ll get from us :
Pay transparency
The annual US base salary range for this role is $130,000-$200,000.
This salary range may be inclusive of several career levels at Column, and will be narrowed during the interview process based on a number of factors including, but not limited to, the candidate’s skill sets, experience, licensure and certifications, location, and other business and organizational needs. Posted salary ranges reflect base salary only, exclusive of equity and other compensation and benefits.
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 accommodations@column.com.
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Salary : $130,000 - $200,000
