Description review

Column ( ) | ONSITE San Francisco, CA | Full Time | Software Engineers (Backend, Infra,

Column ( ) · Full Time · back to the listing

HR standards

24/100

poor

Title ↔ description

54/100

needs work

Reads as

Backend Engineer

98% confident

What this role officially is

software developer — ESCO, the EU occupation classification

Software developers implement or program all kinds of software systems based on specifications and designs by using programming languages, tools, and platforms.

Also known as: application developer, application programmer, solutions developer, programmer, software specialist, application software developer

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What the listing never says

  • No section describes what the person would actually do. Scope clarity
  • No pay range published. Candidates cannot tell whether applying is worth their time. Pay transparency
  • No location or timezone policy stated, so a candidate cannot tell where they may work from. Scope clarity

The listing, marked up

Nothing in the wording of this listing tripped a check. The scores above still judge how complete and coherent it is.

Product, Security)| Forward-deployed Engineers | Solutions Engineers, Payment Ops, Growth, Partnerships & Emerging Markets

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 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.
We just launched stablecoins, full-stack card issuing, global banking, and multicurrency accounts: https://column.com/launch
Column was founded by William Hockey, who previously started Plaid. We keep an extremely lean and experienced team, and we're looking for ambitious people who want to build incredible software from first principles:
- Software Engineers (Backend, Infra, Product, Security)
- Forward-deployed Engineers
- Solutions Engineers
- Payment Operations (new grad / early career)
- Growth
- Partnerships
- Emerging Markets
Profitable and owned by employees and founders.
Apply here: https://column.com/careers

How this was produced

Highlights are found by rule, not by a model: each one is a phrase matched at a known position, and every note is a template we wrote. The two scores come from a typed-decision model (Jev) that reads the listing against the official role definition and real listings for the same role, and returns probabilities rather than prose — it never writes any of the words on this page, and never chooses what to highlight.

Deterministic penalty applied to the HR score: 16 points (from 40 before penalties). Reviewed 2 Oct 2026.