Senior Director, Engineering

Circle is one of the world’s leading internet financial platform companies, building the foundation of a more open, global economy through digital assets and payment applications. The Senior Director of Engineering will set the vision, strategy, and execution for Circle’s platform UX engineering organization, ensuring scalable frontend platforms and user experience capabilities across products while leading multiple engineering teams.

Responsibilities:

• Set the vision, strategy, and execution for Circle’s platform UX engineering organization, ensuring frontend platforms, design systems, and shared user experience capabilities scale reliably across products
• Lead multiple engineering teams through senior managers and technical leaders, balancing long-term platform evolution with near-term delivery
• Partner closely with Product, Design, Brand, Backend Platform, Security, and Compliance leaders to deliver cohesive, accessible, and high-performing user experiences while building strong engineering culture, developing leaders, and establishing standards that enable teams across Circle to move faster with confidence
• Lead day-to-day execution across multiple platform UX engineering teams, including planning, backlog management, agile ceremonies, and operating rhythms
• Define and drive the technical vision and roadmap for Circle’s frontend platforms, design systems, and shared UX capabilities used across products
• Provide hands-on technical leadership on frontend architecture, performance, accessibility, and system design for large-scale, user-facing platforms
• Establish and uphold engineering standards for frontend quality, reliability, performance, accessibility, and developer experience
• Attract, develop, and retain high-performing frontend engineering leaders and teams through hiring, coaching, mentoring, and performance management
• Identify and proactively manage UX platform risks, dependencies, and technical debt while contributing to engineering-wide initiatives and cross-functional execution

Requirements:

• 15+ years of software engineering experience, including 8+ years in senior technical leadership roles
• Significant experience leading frontend or UX platform engineering organizations in a product-driven environment
• Proven success managing multiple teams through senior managers and technical leaders
• Deep expertise building and scaling frontend platforms, design systems, and shared UI foundations used across multiple products
• Strong hands-on technical background in modern frontend architectures, with the ability to review code, guide system design, and lead critical technical decisions
• Experience delivering high-quality, accessible, and high-performing user interfaces at scale, including deep knowledge of web performance and accessibility standards
• Ability to balance long-term UX platform strategy with pragmatic execution and delivery
• Experience partnering closely with Product, Design, and cross-functional leaders to translate user and business needs into shared frontend capabilities
• Passion for coaching, developing leaders, and enabling teams to do their best work
• Experience leading globally distributed, remote-first teams
• Comfort operating in fast-paced environments with high autonomy and responsibility
• Experience building internal developer platforms or shared services used broadly across an organization
• Background working in regulated, security-sensitive, or compliance-heavy environments
• Experience scaling platforms in high-growth or rapidly evolving companies