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About the role
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. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they'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
More about this role
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, Meta, 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!
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...
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