Careers
Come help build the backbone of modern financial services.
But be ready for it to be a bit weird...
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If you've made it here you probably want to know what we're hiring for and if you should apply. You've made it to the right place. However, a couple things to note. First, we're not your normal tech company and we're definitely not your normal bank. You should read through this site in detail before you apply (especially the company page) and about our funding and our hiring philosophy.
In short, we're a pretty small team and we plan on staying that way. We are hiring a few people so we're excited to talk but it may be a different process than you're used to. We heavily emphasize employee experience, and a big part of that means not burdening them with constant interviews. So part of our process is async (things like a take-home) and that can sometimes result in a less than ideal candidate experience. That's a tradeoff we're willing to make, and means once you work here there is more deep work time and fewer distractions. If this sounds like something you'd be into — let's go do this thing!
Open roles
Software Engineer (Backend)
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.
Software Engineer (Infrastructure)
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!
Software Engineer (Internal Tools)
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.
Software Engineer (Product)
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.
Solutions Engineer
Solutions Engineer
At Column Solutions Engineers are not confined to pre-sales, post-sales implementation, or customer demos. Here you’ll use your skill set and product expertise to work on projects across our teams and work directly with our global fintech partners to design bespoke solutions. We don’t have Product Managers at Column which means you’ll have the opportunity to contribute to our product roadmap, our codebase, and operations. If you want to elevate what it means to be a Solutions Engineer and ready for an exciting challenge, this role may be right for you.
This role will work alongside our team in our Presidio-based office, and reports to the Head of Solution Engineering.
Account Executive
Account Executive
We’re hiring a thoughtful yet scrappy Account Executive to join our GTM function. In this role, you’ll navigate complex and high-value deals, manage and generate a sales pipeline, and scale our sales function into an efficient winning machine. We’re looking for folks who have 4+ years of closing experience, ideally in the financial services/fintech space, and can operate without much guidance, structure, or coaching.
This role reports directly to our Head of Go to Market 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.
Business Operations
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.
Corporate Risk Strategy
Corporate Risk Strategy
We’re looking for an all-around business athlete to join our Corporate Risk Strategy team as a founding member. In order to onboard our fintech customers and develop world-class banking technology, Column relies on forward-thinking, strategic, and highly efficient risk programs to ensure we scale our business in a safe and sound manner. Building an exceptional approach to managing risk is a critical differentiator for Column (and one of our CEO’s most important strategic imperatives) - however, you don’t need to be an expert in banking or risk on day one to help us take our approach to the next level. Instead, we are seeking a candidate who will challenge the status quo and utilize their highly strategic, operational, and product-oriented mindset to weave technology and automation into our risk operations.
This role will report directly to our Head of Technology Risk, and will partner closely with leaders across our engineering, business, legal, compliance, operations, and go-to-market teams to implement our vision. This role will be based in-person at our Presidio office in San Francisco (3-4 days/week).
Finance Operations
Finance Operations
We’re hiring an experienced finance professional to support and operationalize our financial processes across accounting, finance, treasury, and credit operations for our bank. You’ll need a strong foundation in accounting, and be motivated to scale our business and financial operations.
This role will work alongside our financial leaders in our Presidio-based office in San Francisco to build a top-tier financial function.
Growth
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.
New Business, Vertical Solutions
New Business, Vertical Solutions
This is a new team at Column dedicated to a different application for our product suite that involves developing solutions and a go-to-market approach tailored to specific new industry verticals. As a founding member of our Vertical Solutions team, your success will directly impact the success of our business. You’ll have the opportunity to develop new vertical-specific playbooks, creatively find new ways to reach customers, and build pipeline. This is an excellent opportunity for someone looking to launch their career in a scrappy, customer-centric role.
This role reports into our General Manager of Vertical Solutions and will work out of our San Francisco (Presidio) office 3+ days a week.
Payment Operations (New Grad)
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.
Talent Partner
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.
Recruiter
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.
AML Analyst
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.
Compliance Analyst
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.
Customer Due Diligence
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.
KYC Operations
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.
Partner Diligence
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.
Third-Party Compliance
Third-Party Compliance
We’re hiring for our Third-Party 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 Compliance. 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.
I don't fit into any of these roles!
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!
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 :)