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.