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Column (https://column.com/) | San Francisco, CA (ONSITE) | Full Time | Software Eng (Infrastructure), Software Eng (Backend), Software Eng (Product)

Column is building the infrastructure that powers the US dollar globally. We're a software first company, but also own a nationally chartered bank that we've built from the ground up. We're currently processing trillions of dollars annually (yes, that's with a T), supporting some of the largest and most sophisticated companies out there like Wise, Bilt, Brex, Ramp, Mercury and dozens of others.

Started by the founder of Plaid (plaid.com), Column is focused on keeping an extremely lean and experienced team: currently 10 engineers that all report to the CEO (many of whom we hired through HN). We are looking for an ambitious infrastructure, product, and backend engineer (one of each) that want to build incredible software from first principles.

Profitable and 100% owned by employees and founders.

Apply here: https://column.com/careers

Feel free to email me with any questions: praful@

I think my point in the post is: even though I may have graduated to writing more ambitious software (see: "managing a fleet of agentic coding agents"), and still find challenge in my work, it may be unreasonable to expect everyone to do that. This applies more to your typical salaried employee than solopreneur builder.

(huge fan of your blog/pelicans btw)

Author here: I used Suno. I've played around with music production using things like Ableton and Logic Pro and I was completely blown away by Suno. It's really so much fun.

Column (https://column.com/) | San Francisco, CA (ONSITE) | Full Time | Software Eng (Infrastructure), Software Eng (Backend), Software Eng (Product)

Column is building the infrastructure that powers the US dollar globally. We're a software first company, but also own a nationally chartered bank that we've built from the ground up. We're currently processing trillions of dollars annually (yes, that's with a T), supporting some of the largest and most sophisticated companies out there like Wise, Bilt, Brex, Ramp, Mercury and dozens of others.

Started by the founder of Plaid (plaid.com), Column is focused on keeping an extremely lean and experienced team: currently 10 engineers that all report to the CEO (many of whom we hired through HN). We are looking for an ambitious infrastructure, product, and backend engineer (one of each) that want to build incredible software from first principles.

Profitable and 100% owned by employees and founders.

Apply here: https://column.com/careers

Feel free to email me with any questions: praful@

Author here: I would love to hear more stories or ideas about what you think won't change because of AI. Let me know!

Appreciate you flagging this! Just moved the rendering to the server so things should work for you now.

Column (https://column.com/) | San Francisco, CA (ONSITE) | Full Time | Software Eng (Infrastructure), Software Eng (Backend), Software Eng (Product)

Column is building the infrastructure that powers the US dollar globally. We're a software first company, but also own a nationally chartered bank that we've built from the ground up. We're currently processing trillions of dollars annually (yes, that's with a T), supporting some of the largest and most sophisticated companies out there like Wise, Bilt, Brex, Ramp, Mercury and dozens of others.

Started by the founder of Plaid (plaid.com), Column is focused on keeping an extremely lean and experienced team: currently 10 engineers that all report to the CEO. We are looking for an ambitious infrastructure, product, and backend engineer (one of each) that want to build incredible software from first principles.

Profitable and 100% owned by employees and founders.

Apply here: https://column.com/careers

Feel free to email me with any questions: praful@

Totally agree its a bit movie-plot-y, but the point of that example is to highlight something that (obviously) violates sanctions rules and would get flagged on a national security scale by governments.

The examples you listed would all be lower priority.

Love this as a real world benchmark!

How much prompt iteration did you do? I've noticed when building real world agentic apps that small prompt tweaks can make a huge difference in behavior (re: the reward hacking vs hallucinating). Would love to learn more about the approach here.

Column (https://column.com/) | Software Eng (Infrastructure), Software Eng (Backend), Software Eng (Product) | San Francisco, CA (ONSITE) | Full Time

Column is the first nationally chartered bank built from the ground up for developers. We provide an API first, modern banking experience for our customers, replacing the bloated middleware and legacy software that currently powers most financial companies.

Started by the co-founder of Plaid, Column has a team of 10 experienced engineers and is currently processing hundreds of billions in payments annually, supporting some of the largest and most sophisticated fintech companies. We are looking for ambitious infrastructure, product, and backend engineers that want to build the best-in-class banking tech from first principles. 2025 is lining up to be a huge year for us with lots of new features and high-scale customers, so it's an exciting time to join the team!

Apply here: https://column.com/careers

Feel free to email me with any questions: praful@

Column (https://column.com/) | Software Eng (Infrastructure), Software Eng (Backend), Software Eng (Product) | San Francisco, CA (ONSITE) | Full Time

Column is the first nationally chartered bank built from the ground up for developers. We provide an API first, modern banking experience for our customers, replacing the bloated middleware and legacy software that currently powers most financial companies.

Started by the co-founder of Plaid, Column has a team of <10 experienced engineers and is currently processing hundreds of billions in payments annually, supporting some of the largest and most sophisticated fintech companies. We are looking for ambitious infrastructure, product, and backend engineers that want to build the best-in-class banking tech from first principles. It's a fun time to join - we are scaling volume crazy fast while shipping tons of new features. To keep the team small we have a very high bar for talent, but if this sounds exciting would encourage you to apply!

Apply here: https://column.com/careers

Feel free to email me with any questions: praful@

Done!

Thanks for flagging - will take a look!

Column (https://column.com/) | Software Eng (Infrastructure), Software Eng (Backend), Software Eng (Product) | San Francisco, CA (ONSITE) | Full Time

Column is the first nationally chartered bank built from the ground up for developers. We provide an API first, modern banking experience for our customers, replacing the bloated middleware and legacy software that currently powers most financial companies.

Started by the co-founder of Plaid, Column has a team of <10 experienced engineers and is currently processing hundreds of billions in payments annually, supporting some of the largest and most sophisticated fintech companies. We are looking for ambitious infrastructure, product, and backend engineers that want to build the best-in-class banking tech from first principles. We all work on high impact, independently driven projects - writing code for regulated financial infrastructure at scale.

Apply here: https://column.com/careers

Feel free to email me with any questions: praful@

Column (https://column.com/) | Software Eng (Backend), Software Eng (Infrastructure) | San Francisco, CA | Full Time

Column is the first nationally chartered bank built from the ground up for developers. We provide an API first, modern banking experience for our customers, replacing the bloated middleware and legacy software that currently powers most financial companies.

Started by the co-founder of Plaid, Column has a team of <10 engineers and is currently processing hundreds of billions in payments annually, supporting some of the largest and most sophisticated fintech companies. We are looking for experienced backend and infra engineers to join our team. We all work on high impact, independently driven projects - writing code for regulated financial infrastructure at scale.

Apply here: https://column.com/careers or read more about our hiring philosophy here: https://column.com/blog/hiring-at-column

Feel free to email me with any questions: praful@

Column (https://column.com/) | Software Eng (Product), Software Eng (Infrastructure), Software Eng (Internal Tools) | San Francisco, CA | Full Time

Column is the first nationally chartered bank built from the ground up for developers. We provide an API first, modern banking experience for our customers, replacing the bloated middleware and legacy software that currently powers most financial companies.

Started by the co-founder of Plaid, Column has a team of 8 experienced engineers and is currently processing hundreds of billions in payments annually, supporting some of the largest and most sophisticated fintech companies. We are currently hiring our first full-stack product engineer (React, Go) to build delightful banking UX. We are also hiring an experienced infra engineer (Go, Kubernetes, AWS) to help scale our systems. Finally, we have a new role open for a junior engineer to work on full-stack internal tooling (JS, Go) with lots of opportunities for growth. We all work on high impact, independently driven projects - writing code for regulated financial infrastructure at scale.

Apply here: https://column.com/careers or read more about our hiring philosophy here: https://column.com/blog/hiring-at-column

Feel free to email me with any questions: praful@

Column (https://column.com/) | Software Eng (Product), Software Eng (Infrastructure), Software Eng (Internal Tools) | San Francisco, CA | Full Time

Column is the first nationally chartered bank built from the ground up for developers. We provide an API first, modern banking experience for our customers, replacing the bloated middleware and legacy software that currently powers most financial companies.

Started by the co-founder of Plaid, Column has a team of 8 experienced engineers and is currently processing hundreds of billions in payments annually, supporting some of the largest and most sophisticated fintech companies. We are currently hiring our first full-stack product engineer (React, Go) to build delightful banking UX. We are also hiring an experienced infra engineer (Go, Kubernetes, AWS) to help scale our systems. Finally, we have a new role open for a junior engineer to work on full-stack internal tooling (JS, Go) with lots of opportunities for growth. We all work on high impact, independently driven projects - writing code for regulated financial infrastructure at scale.

Apply here: https://column.com/careers or read more about our hiring philosophy here: https://column.com/blog/hiring-at-column

Feel free to email me with any questions: praful@

Column (https://column.com/) | Software Engineer (Product), Software Engineer (Infrastructure) | San Francisco, CA | Full Time

Column is the first nationally chartered bank built from the ground up for developers. We provide an API first, modern banking experience for our customers, replacing the bloated middleware and legacy software that currently powers most financial companies.

Started by the co-founder of Plaid, we are a team of 8 experienced engineers building the Column platform that processes hundreds of billions in payments annually. We are currently hiring our first full-stack product engineer (React, Go) to build delightful banking UX. We are also hiring an experienced infra engineer (Go, Kubernetes, AWS) to help scale our systems. We all work on high impact, independently driven projects and support some of the largest and most sophisticated fintech customers.

Apply here: https://column.com/careers or read more about our hiring philosophy here: https://column.com/blog/hiring-at-column

Feel free to email me with any questions: praful@

Column (https://column.com/) | Product Software Engineer, Infrastructure Software Engineer, Techops Engineer | San Francisco, CA | Full Time

Column is the first nationally chartered bank built from the ground up for developers. We provide an API first, modern banking experience for our customers, replacing the bloated middleware and legacy software that currently powers most financial companies.

Started by the co-founder of Plaid, we are a team of 8 experienced engineers building the Column platform. We are currently hiring our first full-stack product engineer (React, Go) to build delightful banking UX. We are also hiring an experienced infra engineer (Go, Kubernetes, AWS) to help scale our systems. We all work on high impact, independently driven projects and support some of the largest and most sophisticated fintech customers.

Apply here: https://column.com/careers or read more about our hiring philosophy here: https://column.com/blog/hiring-at-column

Feel free to email me with any questions: praful@

Column (https://column.com/) | Infrastructure Software Engineer, Techops Engineer | San Francisco, CA or Remote (for exceptional candidates) | Full Time

Column is the first nationally chartered bank built from the ground up for developers. We provide an API first, modern banking experience for our customers, replacing the bloated middleware and legacy software that currently powers most financial companies.

Started by the co-founder of Plaid, we are a team of 8 experienced engineers building the Column platform. Since we are rapidly onboarding new customers, our #1 priority is hiring an experienced infra engineer (Go, Kubernetes, AWS) that can help us scale our systems. We all work on high impact, independently driven projects and support some of the largest and most sophisticated fintech customers.

Apply here: https://column.com/careers or read more about our hiring philosophy here: https://column.com/blog/hiring-at-column

Feel free to email me with any questions: praful@[put company name here].com

Column (https://column.com/) | Infrastructure Software Engineer, Techops Engineer | San Francisco, CA or Remote (for exceptional candidates) | Full Time

Column is the first nationally chartered bank built from the ground up for developers. We provide an API first, modern banking experience for our customers, replacing the bloated middleware and legacy software that currently powers most financial companies.

Started by the co-founder of Plaid, we are a team of 8 experienced engineers building the Column platform. Our #1 priority is hiring an experienced infra engineer (Go, Kubernetes, AWS) that can help us scale our systems. We all work on high impact, independently driven projects and support some of the largest and most sophisticated fintech customers.

Apply here: https://column.com/careers or read more about our hiring philosophy here: https://column.com/blog/hiring-at-column

Feel free to email me with any questions: praful@[put company name here].com

Column is building API's for our direct integration with FedNow: https://column.com/fednow/

The network of banks supporting FedNow is still small, so we may not see meaningful payment volume for a while compared to ACH, Wires, Checks, etc.

Column (https://column.com/) | Software Engineer, Infrastructure Software Engineer, Security Engineer | San Francisco, CA or Remote (for exceptional candidates) | Full Time

Column is the first nationally chartered bank built from the ground up for developers. We provide an API first, modern banking experience for our customers, replacing the bloated middleware and legacy software that currently powers most financial companies.

Started by the co-founder of Plaid, we are a team of 7 experienced engineers looking for 1 or 2 more infra/backend folks to add to our team. We all work on high impact, independently driven projects and support some of the largest and most sophisticated fintech customers.

Apply here: https://column.com/careers or read more about our hiring philosophy here: https://column.com/blog/hiring-at-column

Feel free to email me with any questions: praful@[put company name here].com

Column | https://column.com/ | Full-time | Engineering | San Francisco | https://column.com/careers/

Column is the first and only nationally chartered bank built from the ground up for developers to create new financial products.

Banking has been all over the news lately, and not for the best reasons. We are building a safe, automated, and trustworthy bank that is API first, to reliably power businesses at any scale. Think of us as the bottom layer of the financial infrastructure stack.

We are small, flat team of 8 engineers supporting complex customers and moving billions of dollars.

Looking for motivated and curious infrastructure, security, and backend engineers to join us: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/column

Column (https://column.com/) | Software Engineer, Infrastructure Software Engineer, Security Engineer | San Francisco, CA or Remote (for exceptional candidates) | Full Time

Column is the first nationally chartered bank built from the ground up for developers. We provide an API first, modern banking experience for our customers, replacing the bloated middleware and legacy software that currently powers most financial companies.

Started by the co-founder of Plaid, we are a team of 7 experienced engineers looking for 1 or 2 more infra/backend folks to add to our team. We all work on high impact, independently driven projects (think lending, checks, international payments) and support some of the biggest fintech companies out there (ex: Brex).

Apply here: https://column.com/careers or read more about our hiring philosophy here: https://column.com/blog/hiring-at-column

Feel free to reach out with any questions at careers@column.com

Eng @ Column here. Unlike the other BaaS providers, we ARE the bank. So the buck stops with us so to speak. You won't have to deal with middleware or a bunch of other partner banks, which we like to think is a much better experience.

I'm sure you could :)

Engineer at Column here - we have definitely considered creating SDK's but most of our customers prefer the HTTP API's, which will likely remain the best way to use Column for a while.

Yup. You can sign up today for sandbox access, and then contact us once you are ready to go live and move real money.

Truth is, we probably aren't great as a personal checking account, and thats not really the intended use case. But you are welcome to try us out and see what you can build!

Engineer at Column here. We absolutely want to be early adopters of all new Fed technologies and payment rails. That being said, the rollout on these things is...slow. The Fed moves at its own pace, but we will definitely be right there with them.