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Software Engineer (Backend)

We’re a lean and experienced team of nine engineers, and we’re seeking a talented Backend engineer to join us. We write mostly Go, but experience there isn’t that important. We generally prefer candidates with at least five years of production coding experience with a strongly typed back-end language on a high-caliber team.

This role reports directly to our Founder/CEO and will work alongside our team in-person in our Presidio-based office in San Francisco 3+ days a week.

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Software Engineer (Infrastructure)

We're a lean and experienced team. We like our current size of nine engineers. For an excellent candidate we're open to hiring one or two more. 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!

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Software Engineer (Internal Tools)

At Column, we invest heavily in automation and tooling. In this role, you’ll be the key person responsible for helping us ship faster and build better. Your day-to-day will be writing TypeScript/JS for our Retool-based internal tooling system and writing in Golang for our backend. This is our most junior role and will be the best option for those looking to apply as a new graduate — we see this role as a feeder to other technical teams at Column.

This role is San Francisco-based, and you'll be expected to work out of our (awesome) Presidio-based office 3+ days a week.

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Software Engineer (Product)

Column is looking for a full-stack product engineer to build high-quality, intuitive banking user experiences. We're a lean and experienced team of nine, and want to grow thoughtfully with exceptional people. In this role you will be writing Go, React, and SQL, and working on our customer dashboard. We generally prefer candidates with at least five years of production coding experience at a high-caliber and high-velocity team.

This role reports directly to our Founder/CEO and will work alongside our team in-person in our Presidio-based office in San Francisco 3+ days a week.

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Customer Engineer

As a Customer Engineer at Column, you’ll get the chance to work with some of the coolest companies in fintech and help them understand how to build solutions/products using our APIs and data model. This is a super cross-functional role where you’ll partner with team members across our engineering, business, operations, finance, and compliance teams to support customer implementations and drive payment volume through Column (and help grow our business as a result!). Column doesn’t have product managers, so you'll contribute to gathering and synthesizing product feedback, identifying gaps, and supporting the development of product requirements while learning how we prioritize new feature development with our engineering team.

This role requires more technical aptitude than the average Customer Engineering position - you'll need to understand our technology deeply to be an effective partner to our customers. You'll also assist in building internal tooling to improve operational efficiency, with significant opportunities to take on more responsibility as you grow. This role will work alongside our team in our Presidio-based office (4 days in-person/week) and reports to Column’s Head of Solution Engineering.

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Business Operations

As a founding member of Column’s Business Operations team, you will be responsible for helping lay the foundation for the company’s next decade of growth. This team will own Column’s most important strategic and operational initiatives, with a heavy focus on designing new operating systems that will directly impact our ability to scale. Individuals in this role will serve as the “GM” of a particular product or project, diving deep into a wide range of challenges across product strategy, pricing optimization, compliance operations, and internal tool/platform development. You will have the opportunity to experience having P&L ownership of a particular product, while working alongside senior leadership at Column to take our business to the next level.

This position will report to our CEO, and will be in-person in our Presidio-based office in San Francisco (3-4 days/week) - we will support relocation for the right candidate.

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Sales & Partnerships

As a member of the GTM team at Column, your mandate is to build relationships with and sell into strategic accounts. You’ll collaborate with leadership and Column's Business team to identify and close opportunities with companies that would benefit from building financial products with Column’s APIs - demonstrating Column’s value proposition and differentiation every step of the way. Success in this role looks like positioning yourself as a trusted advisor to current and future customers, building long-term relationships with prospects, and ultimately structuring and winning deals with our most important accounts. This role reports to the Head of Sales & Partnerships and is in our San Francisco HQ or eligible for remote, with significant travel to clients and prospects expected (~50%).

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Growth

As one of the first members of the Growth team, you’ll be responsible for building and overseeing all aspects of our customer management while acting as a trusted partner, advisor and advocate for a wide variety of customers. You will also be in charge of designing and implementing the strategy, processes, and content needed to help us scale this key function. Column's Growth team is not your typical Customer Success or Account Management team in that Column is a critical, often existential, partner for our customers, our customer relationships are deeply collaborative and complex, and each customer contributes meaningfully to our revenue. This role is highly cross-functional and collaborative, partnering closely with Column’s Executive, Solutions Engineering, Sales, Compliance, and Product teams to ensure a top-notch customer experience. You’ll also represent the voice of the customer to help inform Column's strategy, including the product roadmap, go-to-market motions and more. Success in this role also means becoming an expert on the Financial Technology space and on how companies partner with Column (our customers include many key industry players such as Brex and Carta).

This role reports to the Head of Go-To-Market and is an in-person role, where you’ll be expected to work out of our San Francisco Presidio-based office 3+ days a week.

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Product Counsel

We're looking for a senior Product Counsel to provide strategic counsel for Column’s product offerings, both existing and new. This isn't a role where you'll be stuck in the background – you'll be a key strategic partner working directly with our Go-to-Market, Engineering, Compliance, Risk, and Finance teams to drive product development and expansion. Your unique perspective, drawn from past experience in traditional banking, fintech, and/or highly regulated product launches, will be invaluable as we navigate complex regulatory environments while maintaining our competitive edge.

Unlike typical in-house counsel positions where you might be one of many lawyers reviewing decisions made by others, this role offers true ownership. You'll be the key decision-maker on product legal strategy, with direct access to leadership and the ability to shape our approach to regulatory compliance and product development as we launch new fintech partnerships and expand our existing offerings. In connection with these launches, you will also work closely with our fintech partners to innovate and launch products, making this a hands-on and customer-facing role. This is an opportunity to combine your BigLaw training, banking knowledge, and fintech experience to create something meaningful. If you're ready to become a builder, we should talk.

This role reports directly to the Bank’s General Counsel and is based out of our SF office in the Presidio 3+ days a week.

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Payment Operations (New Grad)

We’re hiring for a member of our Payment Ops team. In this role you’ll own processes, customer service for related cases, and scalability for a best in class payments function at a technology forward bank. This is an excellent opportunity for someone who’s looking to dive into strategy, developing processes, and true operations ownership. Bonus points if you’re interested in, or have experience with payments at a financial institution or fintech.

This role reports directly to the Head of Solutions Engineering and will work alongside our team in-person in our Presidio-based office in San Francisco 3+ days a week.

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Talent Partner

As a Talent Partner at Column, you will play a pivotal role in fueling the company's growth by identifying, attracting, and hiring top-tier talent. In this position, you'll own the entire hiring process, partnering closely with Column's leadership team and key stakeholders to understand their business needs, while designing and executing a strategic approach to recruiting. You'll lead full-cycle recruiting for a diverse range of roles, including highly specialized and leadership positions, ensuring a seamless and exceptional candidate experience along the way.

This is an exciting opportunity for a seasoned recruiter who is passionate about building high-performance teams and enjoys the challenge of niche and bespoke searches. You will also have the opportunity to help shape and evolve our recruiting processes as we scale.

This role reports directly to the Head of People, and is an in-person position where you'll be expected to work out of our Presidio-based office in San Francisco 3+ days a week.

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Recruiter

As a member of Column's Recruiting team, you will be responsible for identifying and attracting top-tier talent that is critical to driving the company's growth strategy. In this role, you will be responsible for the end-to-end recruitment lifecycle (from sourcing to closing), with the opportunity to recruit across Column's teams (technical and non-technical). Throughout the hiring process, we'll look to you to help craft a best-in-class candidate experience, while serving as a key thought partner to hiring managers and internal stakeholders when it comes to talent acquisition and building amazing teams. This is a great opportunity for someone who is excited to flex their recruiting skill-set across a diverse array of roles, think strategically about what a best-in-class Recruiting function should look like at a fast-growing, industry-changing company, and get their hands dirty building and implementing new systems and processes to help us scale.

This role reports directly to the Head of People, and is an in-person position where you'll be expected to work out of our Presidio-based office in San Francisco 3+ days a week.

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Recruiting Coordinator

As Column’s first Recruiting Coordinator, you’ll be the backbone of our talent acquisition efforts. This role combines operational excellence with relationship building to create amazing hiring experiences for candidates and our own hiring teams. You’ll work across all departments to help schedule interviews and support the entire candidate lifecycle - you’ll also have the unique opportunity to establish and refine our recruiting infrastructure during a period of significant growth. Your work will directly impact how we build our team and, by extension, how we deliver against our vision to help our customers build better financial products.

This position will report directly to the Head of People, and the individual in the role must be willing to work in person in our Presidio-based office in San Francisco (3-4 days/week).

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AML Analyst

Column's Financial Crimes team is responsible for protecting the Bank and its customers from money laundering, fraud, economic sanction evaluations, foreign corruption, and terrorist financing violations. Our program is designed to ensure the Bank, U. S. financial system, and our country are protected from illicit actors who exploit banking services with nefarious and criminal intent.

The AML Analyst role performs L1 triage investigations of transaction monitoring system-generated alerts and referrals, including identifying root causes of the alert, sources and uses of funds, and potentially suspicious activity. This role is a great opportunity for someone who is passionate about the world of financial crimes, and who is interested in gaining experience across a wide variety of fintech customer types, use cases, and flow of funds to accelerate their AML career.

This role is a contract-to-hire, remote position with an initial contract duration of six months and the potential to either extend or convert to full-time employment based on performance.

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Compliance Analyst

The Compliance Analyst role will be responsible for executing Column’s Compliance Testing & Monitoring program, working with cross-functional partners throughout the Bank to ensure changes to compliance obligations are implemented appropriately, and supporting our Third Party Risk Management (TPRM) team to ensure compliance expectations are being met by the Bank’s Partners.

The role reports to the Bank’s Head of Regulatory Compliance. While an in-person position at the Bank’s San Francisco headquarters is strongly preferred, the role is open to remote applicants with the expectation of periodic travel.

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Customer Due Diligence

The Customer Due Diligence position plays a crucial role in safeguarding Column from financial crimes and ensuring compliance with AML and Sanctions regulations. This position will execute the Bank’s “Know Your Customer” (KYC) program, inclusive of customer identification and verification, due diligence, and enhanced due diligence activities. The scope includes working closely with stakeholders across Column’s Compliance, Operations, Third Party Risk Management, and Business teams to ensure effective and comprehensive due diligence is conducted across products, onboarding flows, and customer types. This role will also be responsible for the oversight and execution of upfront and periodic enhanced due diligence for high and moderate risk customers.

This role will report into the Bank’s first line. While an in-person presence in the Bank’s Presidio-based office is strongly preferred, this role is open to remote applicants with the expectation of periodic travel.

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KYC Operations

The KYC Operations role, a part of the Onboarding team, is responsible for managing the collection, review, and analysis of CIP and CDD during customer onboarding. This role also performs quality reviews on customer onboardings, KYC files, periodic reviews, and remediations to ensure applicable laws, regulations, and internal policy requirements are fully satisfied and accurately documented.

We are looking for someone with 4+ years of experience within financial crimes, specifically KYC, at a financial institution; attention to detail is a must, experience executing against CIP/CDD/EDD Procedures is required, and experience in a quality assurance or quality control role within KYC would be a bonus.

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Partner Diligence

The Partner Diligence team leverages deep regulatory compliance expertise to manage the diligence, risk assessment, control review, approval, and onboarding of Column’s FinTech partners. The regulatory landscape for fintech-banking partnerships is evolving daily, and Column is committed to exceeding regulatory expectations when it comes to partner onboarding. As such, we’re looking for someone who not only has a deep command of federal and state financial regulations, but also understands how to identify, assess, and mitigate the compliance risks posed by both consumer and commercial partnerships. Implementation of a best-in-class Third-Party Risk Management program is critical to the success of Column’s business model and growth of its partnership business, and the individual in this Partner Diligence role will have an opportunity to meaningfully influence the Bank’s strategic direction, growth, safety & soundness, and success.

This position will report to the Bank’s General Counsel, our Chief Risk Officer. This role can be in-person in our Presidio-based office in San Francisco, or remote with frequent travel to San Francisco.

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Partner Compliance

We’re hiring for our Partner Compliance program, this team is responsible for strong ongoing management of the Bank’s partnership business and plays a critical part in the strategic oversight of our partnership portfolio. Column is committed to executing a best-in-class program – as a result, this role requires creativity, a deep understanding of regulatory expectations, and a unique ability to manage risk. The regulatory landscape for fintech-banking partnerships is evolving daily, and there is no one-size-fits-all roadmap for partner oversight. If you enjoy working in a fast-paced environment and thinking through scalable solutions for partner oversight and risk management, then this role is for you.

This position will report to the Bank’s Head of Regulatory Affairs. Preference for this role to be based in-person in our Presidio-based office in San Francisco 3-4 days per week; will also consider remote with frequent travel.

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Customer Risk Strategy

We’re looking for an exceptional all-around business athlete to join our Customer Risk Strategy team! You don’t need to be an expert in banking or risk on day one - we are seeking a self-motivated candidate who is excited about disrupting financial services and willing to utilize their highly strategic, operational, and product-oriented mindset to help drive continuous improvements across our existing operations. Your work will help Column deepen its relationships with its Fintech Partners by effectively managing our forward-thinking, strategic, and highly efficient risk programs (a critical differentiator for Column!) to ensure we scale safely. This is a unique entry point into the world of risk at a high-growth fintech company, where you’ll gain skills and experience that few others can offer.

This role will report directly to our Head of Regulatory Affairs and will partner closely with leaders across engineering, business, legal, compliance, operations, and go-to-market teams. This role is based in-person at our Presidio office in San Francisco (3-4 days/week).

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Credit Risk Oversight

As a member of the Credit Oversight team, you will serve in a key role in managing the Bank’s loan portfolio and credit partnerships. You will be a key member of the first line credit team, responsible for managing the Bank’s various credit partnerships and loan portfolios, including approving credit policies, communicating reporting requirements, completing ongoing portfolio performance monitoring, warehouse line oversight, overseeing loan portfolio audits, and contributing to the Bank’s reserving process under CECL. You will be responsible for providing reporting to the Bank’s executive leadership.

This is a unique opportunity to work closely with a variety of leaders across the Bank, including Column’s business, engineering, risk, and finance teams, to drive value and design a best-in-class approach to credit risk management. This role requires significant interaction with the Bank’s leadership and, potentially, regulators. We are looking for someone with experience reviewing, approving, and implementing credit policies, takes a data driven approach to loan portfolio monitoring and management, and brings strong attention to detail to analyze credit risk across Column.

This role reports directly to our Head of Investing & Treasury, and is in-person in our Presidio-based office in San Francisco (4 days/week).

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IT Systems Engineer

As an IT Systems Engineer at Column, you’ll ensure the secure and reliable operation of our enterprise technology ecosystem, enabling our team to deliver modern banking infrastructure to financial innovators. You will be the frontline of our Technology Operations (TechOps) function, implementing hardware and software solutions that will help our team work efficiently while also maintaining the high security standards required in a banking environment.

This role reports directly to the Head of Technology Operations, and requires an in-person presence in our Presidio-based office at least 4-5 days a week. It also will entail regular travel to our Chico-based office, and periodic travel to San Jose and Los Angeles.

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I don't fit into any of these roles!

You get Column and you think you can drive value on day one. We'll be honest the bar will be pretty high for us to hire outside of these roles - but surprise us. Give us a compelling narrative and hustle....and we promise we'll read the email!

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We're mostly hiring locally in the San Francisco Bay Area, however will be open to remote for exceptional candidates. Sadly we won't have the time to respond to everyone, but we do read every application we get. Please go through the application links, direct emails are strongly discouraged :)

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