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Circle helps businesses and developers harness the power of stablecoins for payments and internet commerce worldwide.
Manager, Software Engineering
Location
Arizona + 3 moreAll locations: Arizona | California | New York | Utah
Posted
166 days ago
Salary
$182.5K - $240K / year
Seniority
Lead
Job Description
Manager, Software Engineering
Circle
• 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
Job 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
Benefits
- Health insurance
- 401(k) matching
- Flexible work hours
- Paid time off
- Remote work options
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