🎯 Our mission
Column Tax is on a mission to help Americans gain financial independence. Our first product is an API that brings the power of a high-end accountant to users who otherwise wouldn’t be able to access financial advice. Our users are individuals and families living paycheck-to-paycheck who use Column to get out of debt, move into their own homes, and save up for emergency bills.
👥 Our team
We're a fast-growing, tight-knit team on a mission to remake the income tax landscape in the U.S. Our founders (ex-Waymo) and early engineering team (ex-Google Brain, ex-Intuit ML) are passionate about building products that will directly impact the financial security of millions of Americans.
We're backed by world-class investors including Bain Capital Ventures, Core Innovation Capital, South Park Commons & Operator Partners.
We’re a remote-first company and we have flexible offices for in-person collaboration in strategic locations like San Francisco & New York.
🏔️ As a Founding Backend Engineer, you’ll have the opportunity to:
- Directly impact the financial security of millions of Americans
- Build product from scratch and set product direction
- Make hiring decisions
- Set our engineering practices and technology choices
- Shape our future culture
- Work with our existing tech stack: Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, Redis, Sidekiq, Heroku, React, TypeScript
💻 About you:
- You have the ability to write quality backend software and occasionally flex into frontend code
- You're familiar with Ruby on Rails and SQL databases
- You are able to handle ambiguity & change
- You are an execution-minded team player
⭐ Things we value:
- Focus: we know that doing great work takes long blocks of uninterrupted time
- Ownership: everyone at Column is empowered to make big decisions
- Transparency: expect honest & vulnerable communication
- Doing the right thing: Taxes is an industry with a history of predatory practices; we’re determined to fix that
🏥 Benefits:
- Time off: we want you to truly recharge
- High-quality healthcare coverage
- Home office & MacBook setup
- Free accounting services & tax prep each year
☑️ What happens after you apply:
- Intro call with one of the founders
- Technical screen: short, time-boxed programming project
- Virtual one-day “onsite”: solve a real technical challenge, tell us about your values, and learn how we work
📩 How to apply:
Email us at team@columntax.com with your LinkedIn/GitHub