Software Engineer

Column

• $130K — $250K *
Finance & Insurance
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience in infrastructure architecture and engineering
  • Strong background in financial systems and banking infrastructure
  • Proficiency in cloud computing (e.g., AWS, GCP) and on-prem solutions
  • Experience designing CI/CD pipelines and developer workflows
  • Knowledge of monitoring, testing, and automation best practices
  • Understanding of compliance and regulatory standards in a financial environment
  • Comfortable with optimizing performance and reliability across complex systems

Responsibilities

  • Build and maintain critical infrastructure components for the company
  • Own and manage banking infrastructure with real-time payment integrations
  • Design and implement CI/CD pipelines and related developer tools
  • Enhance system resiliency through improved monitoring and automation
  • Lead initiatives related to authentication and cross-platform APIs
  • Optimize system performance and ensure operational reliability
  • Maintain safety standards in a regulated financial environment

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage, with dependent options
  • Family planning and fertility reimbursement up to $20,000
  • Post-tax monthly rent subsidy of up to $2,000 for local employees
  • Flexible time-off policy to promote work-life balance
  • 100% paid parental leave with generous durations for different caregivers
  • Backup childcare reimbursements of up to $4,500 annually
  • Catered meals for office-based employees
  • Commuter benefits for transportation costs
  • Regular team-building activities and events
Full Job Description
The opportunity:

You'll be responsible for building and maintaining the systems that power everything at Column - from our payments stack to developer tools to core platform services. This role is perfect for someone who thrives at the intersection of infrastructure, software, and financial systems. Expect to own core parts of our infrastructure and shape the technical foundation of a company moving billions of dollars per day.

What You'll Do
  • Build and maintain critical infrastructure: compute, storage, networking, security, and observability systems
  • Own core banking infrastructure, including direct integrations with the Federal Reserve and real-time payment networks
  • Design and implement CI/CD pipelines, developer tooling, and release engineering workflows
  • Improve system resiliency and availability through better monitoring, testing, and automation
  • Lead platform initiatives like authentication/authorization, change data capture, and cross-cutting APIs
  • Operate close to the metal: optimize performance, reliability, and correctness across our systems
  • Uphold the highest standards for system safety, especially in a regulated, mission-critical environment
What you'll get from us:
  • Comprehensive health, dental, and vision plans, including options that are 100% covered by Column for you and 100% covered for your dependents!
  • Comprehensive family planning and fertility benefits via partnership with Carrot, including reimbursement of up to $20,000 in qualified expenses
  • Up to $2,000 (post-tax) monthly rent subsidy for employees living within 2 miles of Column's office
  • FSA and HSA account options to enable use of pre-tax money for medical and dependent care expenses
  • 401k plan, including self-directed brokerage options
  • Flexible time-off policy - take the time off that you want and need to relax and recharge
  • 100% paid parental leave, including 16 weeks for birth mothers, 12 weeks for primary caregivers, and 8 weeks for secondary caregivers
  • Up to $4,500 in annual reimbursements for backup childcare
  • Catered lunches and dinners for SF employees
  • 🚆 Commuter benefits, including paid transportation to-and-from the office
  • Regular team building events, including annual offsite
Pay transparency:

Compensation packages at Column include base salary, equity, and benefits. New hire offers are made based on a candidate's experience, expertise, geographic location, and internal pay equity relative to peers.

The annual US base salary range for this role is $130,000-$250,000 + equity.

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