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Join Circle as an Engineering Manager for Payments, leading a team to build backend systems for financial institution onboarding and payment orchestration in a flexible, innovative environment.
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. 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.
- Lead a team responsible for backend systems that power financial institution onboarding, payment orchestration, and bulk payment processing.
- Ensure delivery, reliability, security, and financial correctness of systems that move customer funds at scale.
- Develop a high-performing engineering team and partner closely with stakeholders across Circle.
- Provide technical and architectural direction for payment orchestration, ledger and reconciliation systems, and bank or PSP integrations.
- Define roadmaps and deliver cross-border payouts, managed stablecoin settlement, and bulk payment capabilities.
- Own engineering delivery for key Payments initiatives, including regulated and managed payments expansion.
- Coordinate effectively across India- and US-based teams.
- Ensure operational readiness and financial correctness of payment-critical systems, including incident response and on-call practices.
- Recruit, coach, and develop engineers while managing performance, career development, feedback, and promotion processes.
- Drive engineering goals aligned to Payments business outcomes.
- 7+ years of software engineering experience.
- 2+ years of experience managing or formally leading software engineering teams.
- Experience designing, building, and operating distributed, highly available backend systems in production environments.
- Experience building or operating payments, banking, or financial transaction systems such as payment orchestration, ledgers, reconciliation, or settlement.
- Strong hands-on technical leadership skills, including architecture reviews, system design, technical trade-off discussions, and code-level guidance.
- Proficiency in one or more backend programming languages such as Java, Go, or Kotlin.
- Experience recruiting, coaching, developing, and performance-managing engineers, including senior-level individual contributors.
- Strong cross-functional collaboration skills and the ability to partner effectively with Product, Compliance, Risk, and external financial partners.
- Experience with cross-border payments, correspondent banking, stablecoins, blockchain-based settlement rails, or integrations with banks and payment service providers.
- Familiarity with financial compliance concepts such as KYC/KYB, Travel Rule requirements, transaction monitoring, and regulated payments environments.