Join Column as a Forward Deployed Engineer to work directly with customers and enhance banking solutions using our APIs.
Posted by employer 18 hours ago
First seen on Joblaze 50 minutes ago
Last verified on the company career page 50 minutes ago
What you'll build
- Design, build and launch products with Column's banking stack
- Act as the technical owner for strategic customers
- Write production-quality code
- Advise customers on building compliant financial products
- Represent Column in conversations with customer executives
Must have
- Strong engineering fundamentals
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Strong project management skills
Nice to have
- Experience with payments, banking or financial infrastructure
- Fluent in Spanish, French or Russian
Practical constraints
- Frequent travel to customer sites in the US and abroad
Role intensity
70% hands-on coding
Not disclosed in this posting: years of experience, visa sponsorship.
Benefits
Joblaze summary
In the role of Forward Deployed Engineer at Column, the individual will engage directly with clients to understand their challenges and assist in building products using Column's banking APIs. This position requires strong engineering skills, particularly in backend systems and APIs, along with the ability to communicate complex concepts effectively to both technical and executive audiences. Ideal candidates will have a background in financial infrastructure and possess project management capabilities to handle multiple customer engagements simultaneously. The role offers a unique opportunity to influence product development based on real-world insights gained from customer interactions.
Joblaze insights
- Listed today — first seen on Joblaze October 7, 2026. Last confirmed on Column's careers page October 7, 2026.
- Salary band is below the typical range for Backend roles (median ~$180,000).
- Starts above 42% of 135 comparable mid backend roles in United States we track (median $138,700 across 54 companies).
- APIs appears in 5.6% of 251 comparable mid backend roles in United States; Payments appears in 0.8% of 251 comparable mid backend roles in United States.
Quick facts
- Is the Forward Deployed Engineer role remote?
- No — this is an on-site role in San Francisco, CA, United States.
- What's the salary range?
- Column lists $130,000–$250,000 for this role.
- Where is the role based?
- Column is hiring for this position in San Francisco, CA, United States.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: APIs, Banking, Payments.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Column targets mid-level candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Forward Deployed Engineer role at Column.
From the original posting
The opportunity:
We're a lean, experienced engineering team, and we're hiring our first Forward Deployed Engineer. You'll define what this role looks like at Column.
As an FDE, you'll work with customers to understand their problems in depth and help them build new products on Column's APIs. What you learn in the field will feed directly into how our engineering team improves the platform.
This is a hands-on engineering role. You'll write code, debug payment flows and design integrations, and you'll spend a lot of time on-site with customers. You'll get deep exposure to the full banking stack, from our APIs down to the Federal Reserve.
This role is based in our Presidio office in San Francisco, with frequent travel to customer sites in the US and abroad. You will report directly to William, the CEO.
Read more about Life @ Column and our hiring process here. 🚀
What you'll do:
Work directly with our partner’s 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
What we're looking for:
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.
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!
📈 401k plan, including self-directed brokerage options
The annual US base salary range for this role is $130,000-$250,000 + equity.
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