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@

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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@

The examples you listed would all be lower priority.

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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.

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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 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@

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 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 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 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@