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New comment by whockey in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2026)"

whockey — Fri, 01 May 2026 21:40:29 +0000

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, supporting some of the largest and most sophisticated companies out there like Wise, Bilt, Brex, Ramp, Mercury and dozens of others. Previous to this I started Plaid (plaid.com), and at Column I'm focused on keeping an extremely lean and experienced team. We're currently 10 experienced engineers that all report to me. We are looking for an ambitious infrastructure, product, and backend engineer (one of each) that wants 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: william@

New comment by whockey in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2026)"

whockey — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 21:22:53 +0000

Column | https://column.com | backend, tooling and/or infra | San Francisco (in-person)

Column is building the financial operating system to power the movement and holding of money across the globe. We own a nationally chartered bank and build every aspect of our technology in house. We move trillions of dollars in volume annually, power top tech companies like Ramp, Bilt, Mercury and Brex -- along with hundreds of other banks and companies throughout the world. If you want to understand how financial services _really_ works, we're the best place in the world to work.

We're all in person in San Francisco, the stack is all Go, and are looking for backend and infra engineers to join!

The US dollar and national security

whockey — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 17:51:22 +0000

Article URL: https://www.hegemoney.com/p/introducing-hegemoney

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46515809

Points: 17

# Comments: 8

New comment by whockey in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2025)"

whockey — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 17:15:16 +0000

Previous to this I started Plaid (plaid.com), and at Column I'm focused on keeping an extremely lean and experienced team. We're currently 10 experienced engineers that all report to me. We are looking for an ambitious infrastructure, product, and backend engineer (one of each) that wants 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: william@

Making Time Safer in Go

whockey — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 02:49:04 +0000

Article URL: https://www.matthewhalpern.com/posts/golang-type-safe-timezones/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45639831

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

An employee-first equity structure for Silicon Valley

whockey — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 16:37:54 +0000

Article URL: https://column.com/blog/debugging-equity/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45251815

Points: 15

# Comments: 0

New comment by whockey in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2025)"

whockey — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 23:58:51 +0000

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 own a nationally chartered bank that we've built from the ground up. We're currently processing trillions of dollars annually, supporting some of the largest and most sophisticated companies out there like Wise, Bilt, Brex, Ramp, Mercury and dozens of others.

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

Feel free to email me with any questions: william@

New comment by whockey in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2025)"

whockey — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 22:44:47 +0000

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

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

Feel free to email me with any questions: william@

New comment by whockey in "Scout Motors"

whockey — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 23:12:58 +0000

VW relaunching the Scout brand

Scout Motors

whockey — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 23:12:58 +0000

Article URL: https://www.scoutmotors.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41940754

Points: 5

# Comments: 2

New comment by whockey in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2024)"

whockey — Wed, 02 Oct 2024 01:07:27 +0000

Appreciate it - its a fun, but hard problem! Yeah we're pretty hardcore on in-person in SF, which I isn't optimal for most people. As we get larger we may get more flex :)

New comment by whockey in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2024)"

whockey — Wed, 02 Oct 2024 01:06:42 +0000

Thanks for the kind words! Will get back to you in a bit.

New comment by whockey in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2024)"

whockey — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 23:22:30 +0000

CEO of Column here! Have hired a couple amazing people off of HN recently, feel free ping me 1:1 at william [at] column dot com or ping in the comments.

New comment by whockey in "FedNow Is Live"

whockey — Thu, 20 Jul 2023 20:17:58 +0000

Founder of a developer bank, Column N.A. here. If people are interested in starting to build on FedNow hit us up. column.com/fednow and my email is william at column dot com .

New comment by whockey in "Stripe Financial Connections"

whockey — Wed, 04 May 2022 18:06:20 +0000

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New comment by whockey in "Column – a chartered bank for developers"

whockey — Fri, 22 Apr 2022 00:30:57 +0000

420 years

New comment by whockey in "Column – a chartered bank for developers"

whockey — Thu, 21 Apr 2022 20:34:59 +0000

We built everything in house!

New comment by whockey in "Column – a chartered bank for developers"

whockey — Thu, 21 Apr 2022 17:00:47 +0000

Griffin is super rad!

New comment by whockey in "Column – a chartered bank for developers"

whockey — Thu, 21 Apr 2022 16:58:25 +0000

You can invite others to your team!

New comment by whockey in "Column – a chartered bank for developers"

whockey — Thu, 21 Apr 2022 15:55:40 +0000

I'm glad you noticed the account numbers as pointers concept - we think its pretty cool. I think there's some rad use cases that people will come up with!

Thanks on the typo...deploying now :0