VP, Engineering

Circle (NYSE: CRCL) is one of the worlds leading internet financial platform companies building the foundation of a more open global economy through digital assets payment applications and programmable blockchain infrastructure. Circles platform includes the worlds largest regulated stablecoin network anchored by USDC Circle Payments Network for global money movement and Arc an enterprise-grade blockchain designed to become the Economic OS for the internet. Enterprises financial institutions and developers use Circle to power trusted internet-scale financial innovation. Learn more at .

What youll be part of:

Circle is committed to visibility and stability in everything we do. As we grow as an organization were expanding into some of the worlds strongest jurisdictions. Speed and efficiency are motivators for our success and our employees live by our company values: High Integrity Future Forward Multistakeholder Mindful and Driven by Excellence. We have built a flexible work environment where new ideas are encouraged and everyone is a stakeholder.

Engineering at Circle

Circle is a financial technology company at the epicenter of the emerging internet of moneywhere value can move globally nearly instantly and more efficiently than legacy settlement systems. This new infrastructure layer unlocks transformative opportunities across payments commerce and markets helping increase global economic prosperity and financial inclusion.

Our platformincluding USDC a blockchain-based digital dollarenables businesses institutions and developers to build on this evolution of money and technology.

What Youll Be Part Of

Circle is committed to transparency stability and trust in everything we do. As we scale across leading regulatory jurisdictions globally speed reliability and execution excellence are core to our success. Our culture is grounded in four valuesMultistakeholder Mindfulness Driven by Excellence and High Integritywhich guide how we build collaborate and lead.

Circlers operate in a distributed remote-first environment that values flexibility inclusion and shared ownership. New ideas are encouraged and everyone is a stakeholder in Circles success.

What Youll Be Responsible For

You will define and lead the long-term technical vision strategy and execution for Circles platform engineering organization. This includes ensuring the platforms that enable Circles products are scalable secure reliable and compliant as the business grows globally. As a VP1 you will lead large distributed engineering organizations through directors and senior managers aligning multiple platform domains with company priorities. You will partner closely with executive leaders across Product Security Compliance Infrastructure and Business teams to translate strategic objectives into durable platform capabilities while establishing operating models engineering standards and talent strategies that enable sustained delivery and engineering excellence.

What Youll Work On

• Own and drive the multi-year technical vision and roadmap for Circles product-enabling platforms.

• Lead multiple engineering organizations through directors and senior managers setting clear objectives operating rhythms and accountability.

• Provide executive-level technical leadership on architecture system design and critical decisions for complex distributed platform systems.

• Partner with Product Security Compliance and Infrastructure leaders to deliver platform capabilities aligned with business priorities and regulatory requirements.

• Establish and enforce engineering standards for reliability scalability performance security and developer experience.

• Anticipate and manage platform risks dependencies and technical debt to ensure long-term resilience and sustainability.

• Act as a senior ambassador for engineering clearly communicating platform opportunities constraints and trade-offs to executive and cross-functional stakeholders.

• Contribute to engineering-wide strategy planning and talent initiatives as a member of Circles senior engineering leadership team

What Youll Bring to Circle

Core Requirements

• 15 years of software engineering experience including 8 years in senior engineering leadership roles.

• Proven experience leading platform or infrastructure engineering organizations in a product-centric environment.

• Demonstrated success managing leaders of leaders including directors and senior managers.

• Strong technical background with experience building and operating large-scale highly available distributed systems.

• Expertise running critical high-traffic platforms including observability scaling incident response and reliability engineering practices.

• Ability to balance long-term platform strategy with near- and mid-term execution and delivery.

• Experience partnering closely with Product and cross-functional executives to translate business needs into shared platform solutions.

• Passion for developing leaders building strong teams and fostering a culture of accountability and excellence.

• Experience leading globally distributed remote-first teams.

• Comfort operating in fast-paced environments with significant autonomy scope and responsibility.

Preferred Requirements

• 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.

Circle is on a mission to create an inclusive financial future with transparency at our core. We consider a wide variety of elements when crafting our compensation ranges and total compensation packages.

Starting pay is determined by various factors including but not limited to: relevant experience skill set qualifications and other business and organizational needs. Please note that compensation ranges may differ for candidates in other locations.

We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race religion color national origin gender sexual orientation age marital status veteran status or disability status or any other protected status required by the laws in the locations where we hire. Additionally Circle participates in the E-Verify Program in certain locations as required by law.

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