• Lead engineering as a core R&D partner by co-owning product outcomes with Product and Design from problem definition through delivery. • Establish operating rhythms and delivery systems that improve predictability, transparency, and accountability across teams. • Build a culture of shared ownership where engineering teams shape problems, evaluate tradeoffs, and deliver outcomes with clear commitments. • Drive early technical review of scope, feasibility, sequencing, and risk to inform decisions before commitments are finalized. • Define and communicate a technical strategy and architectural direction that aligns with business priorities and supports long-term sustainability. • Guide build, buy, and adopt decisions using a balanced view of customer impact, engineering cost, scalability, and speed to value. • Manage cross-team dependencies, integration points, and risks across geographies to support reliable delivery of complex initiatives. • Develop engineering directors and senior technical leaders through coaching, accountability, succession planning, and role clarity. • Strengthen engineering partnership with Product and Design by ensuring early collaboration on user experience, feasibility, and delivery planning.

• Define and drive the vision for Developer Environments and inner-loop developer productivity at Affirm. • Set technical strategy for your team on a year-long time scale, and tie it to critical, business-impacting projects. • Lead and mentor a team of engineers, fostering a culture of ownership, collaboration, and technical excellence. • Partner with engineering leadership and stakeholders to align Developer Environments priorities with broader product, platform, and reliability goals. • Own the design, scalability, reliability, and usability of the systems powering Affirm’s ephemeral developer environments used in both development and CI contexts. • Improve environment provisioning, stability, and teardown workflows to enhance developer velocity and reliability. • Drive measurable improvements to the developer journey (e.g., startup time, success rate, performance, debuggability, resource utilization). • Implement monitoring, alerting, incident response processes, and operational playbooks to minimize downtime and developer impact. • Collaborate with CI/CD and Test Platform partners to tighten feedback loops and ensure environments integrate cleanly with build/test workflows. • Work closely across engineering to ensure smooth adoption of Developer Environments tooling and best practices. • Identify developer pain points and lead initiatives to improve productivity through tooling, automation, and self-service. • Foster a culture of quality and ownership on your team by setting and improving code review and design standards, and advocating for them beyond your team through writing and knowledge sharing.

Circle (NYSE: CRCL) is one of the world's leading internet financial platform companies, building the foundation of a more open, global economy through digital assets, payment applications, and programmable blockchain infrastructure. Circle's platform includes the world's 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 circle.com . What you'll be part of: Circle is committed to visibility and stability in everything we do. As we grow as an organization, we're expanding into some of the world's 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. What You'll work on: - 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 What you'll bring to Circle: - 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 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. Base Pay Range: $195,000 - $257,500 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. Should you require accommodations or assistance in our interview process because of a disability, please reach out to accommodations@circle.com for support. We respect your privacy and will connect with you separately from our interview process to accommodate your needs. #LI-Remote

• Manage people and productivity, developing leadership and providing feedback to retain talent and achieve team goals. • Ensure the technical and architectural quality of solutions, monitoring product and process evolution. • Design and optimize the development pipeline (DevOps), incorporating Artificial Intelligence to maximize efficiency and competitiveness. • Plan and control the annual delivery schedule, aligned with Product, monitoring tactical and operational metrics. • Monitor product quality in production, identifying bottlenecks and implementing continuous improvements in testing and observability processes.