About the job Software Engineering Manager
About Circle
Circle is a global financial technology company at the forefront of the new internet of money. Our
infrastructure-including USDC, a blockchain-based dollar-powers payments, commerce, and financial applications
worldwide. We help businesses, institutions, and developers leverage breakthrough blockchain technologies to drive
global economic prosperity and digital inclusion.
About the Role
Key Responsibilities
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
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
Hands on technical manager experienced in designing, building and deploying secure, scalable products and services
Bonus Skills
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
Aiming more on the M1 side. Still very technically hands on vs a manager of managers.