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Circle (NYSE: CRCL) is one of the world's leading internet financial platform companies, building the foundation of a more open, global economy through digital assets, payment applications, and programmable blockchain infrastructure. Circle's platform includes the world's largest regulated stablecoin network anchored by USDC, Circle Payments Network for global money movement, and Arc, an enterprise-grade blockchain designed to become the Economic OS for the internet. Enterprises, financial institutions, and developers use Circle to power trusted, internet-scale financial innovation. Learn more at circle.com.

What you'll be part of:

Circle is committed to visibility and stability in everything we do. As we grow as an organization, we're expanding into some of the world's strongest jurisdictions. Speed and efficiency are motivators for our success and our employees live by our company values: High Integrity, Future Forward, Multistakeholder, Mindful, and Driven by Excellence. We have built a flexible work environment where new ideas are encouraged and everyone is a stakeholder.

What You'll work on:

• Run day-to-day activities of a dynamic engineering teams, including requirements grooming, scrums, retrospectives and team outings

• Design, build, and maintain APIs, user-facing experiences, services, and systems.

• Provide technical and architectural direction for the development, design, integration, testing, and maintenance of our platform

• Lead agile software processes for engineering teams and introduce best-in-class industry practices

• Partner with stakeholders to ensure the teams' contributions align with company objectives, develop technology roadmaps and set realistic product release schedules

• Perform full lifecycle of team management to attract, engage, retain, coach and performance manage teams of exceptional engineers (e.g., mentoring, recruiting, training and development, performance evaluation)

• Act as an internal ambassador for the engineering team to other groups, communicating the opportunities and constraints technology offers to the development of projects

• Manage technical debt to ensure our development velocity stays responsive and predictable while minimizing production incidents of our operations

• Contribute to engineering-wide initiatives as a member of Circle's engineering management team

• Coordinate the execution of these activities working with cross-functional teams within Circle

What you'll bring to Circle:

• 3 or more years of experience with technical leadership

• 7 or more years of experience with software engineering

• 3 or more years experience coding in one of the following languages: Go, Java, and/or Javascript

• Hands on technical manager experienced in designing, building and deploying secure, scalable products and services

• You love the idea of coaching and building leaders (both within your direct team and outside of your team)

• You have a passion for enabling and motivating people to do their best work

• You work very well cross-functionally, and are able to think rigorously and make hard decisions and tradeoffs

• You have experience managing remote teams

• The ability to thrive on a fast pace environment with high level of autonomy and responsibilities

Circle is on a mission to create an inclusive financial future, with transparency at our core. We consider a wide variety of elements when crafting our compensation ranges and total compensation packages.

Starting pay is determined by various factors, including but not limited to: relevant experience, skill set, qualifications, and other business and organizational needs. Please note that compensation ranges may differ for candidates in other locations.

We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status, or any other protected status required by the laws in the locations where we hire. Additionally, Circle participates in the E-Verify Program in certain locations, as required by law.

Should you require accommodations or assistance in our interview process because of a disability, please reach out toaccommodations@circle.comfor support. We respect your privacy and will connect with you separately from our interview process to accommodate your needs.

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