Circle is hiring a
Manager, Software Engineering

Summary

The job is for a Technical Lead at financial technology company Circle. The role involves managing engineering teams, designing and building APIs, leading agile software processes, partnering with stakeholders, and managing technical debt among other responsibilities. The candidate should have 3+ years of experience in technical leadership, 7+ years in software engineering, and hands-on coding experience in Go, Java, or Javascript.

Requirements

• 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

Responsibilities

• Run day-to-day activities of a dynamic engineering teams
• Design, build, and maintain APIs, user-facing experiences, services, and systems
• Actively hands on coding and directly supporting hands on engineers
• 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

Preferred Qualifications

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

Benefits

• Base Pay Range: $182,500 - $240,000
• Annual Bonus Target: 15%
• Equity & Benefits (including medical, dental, vision and 401(k))
• Circle has a discretionary vacation policy. We also provide 10 days of paid sick leave per year and 11 paid holidays per year in the U.S