Manager, Software Engineering

Circle is an internet financial platform company building digital asset, payment, and programmable blockchain infrastructure. The Manager, Software Engineering will lead engineering teams, oversee the design and maintenance of APIs, user-facing systems, and platform services, and provide technical and architectural direction. The role also manages agile processes, stakeholder alignment, team development, and engineering-wide initiatives.

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
• 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