Customer Engineer

About Column

For companies building financial technology and transforming the financial services space, the biggest bottleneck to their growth and innovation is often the underlying banks and infrastructure stack they rely on. We have spent our careers founding and scaling companies like Plaid, Square, SoFi, Blend, and Affirm, and have seen this problem firsthand — builders and developers needing to partner with traditional banks, and creating API and abstraction layers over the patchwork that is the bank, its core, and many other vendors. All of this results in a complex (and often expensive) banking supply chain involving a user, fintech, BaaS middleware provider, bank, core and the Federal Reserve.

At Column, we set out to simplify and fix this. We are a bank and a software company built from the ground up, offering builders and developers technology-forward banking solutions that cut out the hundreds of vendors, middleware providers, and abstraction layers. This means a safer, more transparent, and less costly banking supply chain. Come build with us!

The opportunity:

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.

What you'll do:

• Support the technical relationship with our customers across pre-sales, implementation, onboarding, and support.

• Assist with the implementation and delivery of strategic cross-functional projects with guidance from senior team members.

• Help identify operational bottlenecks and contribute to building internal tooling and processes to address them.

• Collect and organize product feedback, help identify gaps, and support the writing of product requirement documents.

• Learn to manage roadmap expectations with our engineering team and customers.

• Perform day-to-day activities consistent with safe and sound business practices and regulatory requirements.

• Help identify, assess, and manage risk by adhering to policies and procedures established by the Bank, and report issues to management.

What you'll need to be successful:

• 3+ years of experience in a technical or technical-adjacent role

• Strong customer-facing presence

• Clear written and verbal communication skills

• Problem-solving aptitude and curiosity

• Humble attitude and eagerness to roll up your sleeves

• Basic technical skills with potential to grow in coding (JavaScript or Python) and ability to learn SQL

• Interest in financial services industry (prior knowledge is helpful but not required)

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

• 💳 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

• 🍽️ Catered lunches and dinners for SF employees

• 🚆 Commuter benefits

• 🎉 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 $125,000 - $160,000 + equity.

We look forward to hearing from you

Column is committed to working with the best and brightest people from the broadest talent pool possible. We value bringing together a team with different perspectives, educational backgrounds, and life experiences, and believe a diversity of ideas is what allows us to develop the best solutions. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply.

If you need assistance or a reasonable accommodation during the application and recruiting process, please reach out to accommodations@column.com.

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