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Manager, Software Engineering

kansas city, MO

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Circle is a financial technology company at the epicenter of the emerging internet of money, where value can finally travel like other digital data — globally, nearly instantly and less expensively than legacy settlement systems. This ground-breaking new internet layer opens up previously unimaginable possibilities for payments, commerce and markets that can help raise global economic prosperity and enhance inclusion. Our infrastructure – including USDC, a blockchain-based dollar – helps businesses, institutions and developers harness these breakthroughs and capitalize on this major turning point in the evolution of money and technology.

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 and diverse 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.

Base Pay Range

$182,500 - $240,000

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at Circle. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. 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 to for support. We respect your privacy and will connect with you separately from our interview process to accommodate your needs.

Seniority level

Seniority level

Mid-Senior level

Employment type

Employment type

Full-time

Job function

Job function

Engineering and Information Technology

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