Senior Director, 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 internet layer unlocks powerful opportunities across payments commerce and markets helping increase global economic prosperity and advance financial inclusion.

Our infrastructureincluding USDC a blockchain-based digital dollarenables businesses institutions and developers to harness these breakthroughs and build on a pivotal evolution in money and technology.

What Youll Be Part Of

Circle is committed to transparency stability and trust in everything we do. As we scale globally across some of the worlds strongest regulatory jurisdictions speed and efficiency remain critical to our success. Our culture is anchored in four core valuesMultistakeholder Mindfulness Driven by Excellence and High Integritywhich guide how we operate collaborate and lead.

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

What Youll Be Responsible For

You will set the vision strategy and execution for Circles platform UX engineering organization ensuring frontend platforms design systems and shared user experience capabilities scale reliably across products. You will lead multiple engineering teams through senior managers and technical leaders balancing long-term platform evolution with near-term delivery. Partnering closely with Product Design Brand Backend Platform Security and Compliance leaders you will 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.

What Youll Work On

• 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 Circles 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.

• Partner closely with Product Design Brand and Backend Platform teams to deliver cohesive scalable and consistent user experiences.

• 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.

What Youll Bring to Circle

Core 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.

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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