Column
Forward Deployed Engineer
$130K–$250K
San Francisco, CA · Full-time · Posted Oct 6, 2026
- Visa sponsorship
- The company participates in the E-Verify program in certain locations as required by law.
About the job
Work with customers to build and launch products on Column’s banking APIs, write integration code, and translate customer needs into platform improvements.
What you'll do
- Own technical engagements with strategic customers from onboarding through launch, resolving architecture, ledgering, reconciliation, and money-movement challenges.
- Write production-quality code for integrations and reusable product features.
- Bring customer feedback to engineering to improve APIs, documentation, and developer experience; advise customers on safe, compliant financial products.
What they ask for
- Strong engineering fundamentals, ideally in backend systems, APIs, or infrastructure.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills, including explaining complex systems to technical and executive audiences.
- Executive presence and confidence leading high-stakes customer conversations.
- Strong project management skills; able to manage multiple customer engagements and work through ambiguity.
Nice to have
- Experience with payments, banking, or financial infrastructure.
- Fluency in Spanish, French, or Russian.
Pay
$130,000-$250,000 USD base salary
Tools
Column's APIs
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