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. Engineering at Circle Circle is a financial technology company at the epicenter of the emerging internet of money-where 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 raise global economic prosperity and advance financial inclusion. Our infrastructure-including USDC, a blockchain-based digital dollar-enables businesses, institutions, and developers to build on a pivotal evolution in money and technology. What You'll Be Part Of Circle is committed to transparency, stability, and trust in everything we do. As we grow globally across some of the world's strongest regulatory jurisdictions, speed, reliability, and execution excellence are critical to our success. Our culture is grounded in four core values-Multistakeholder, Mindfulness, Driven by Excellence, and High Integrity-which guide how we build, collaborate, and lead. Circlers operate in a distributed, remote-first environment that values flexibility, diverse perspectives, and shared ownership. New ideas are encouraged, and everyone is a stakeholder in Circle's success. What You'll Be Responsible For As a Distinguished Engineer at Circle, you will drive the long-term technical direction of Circle's platform and core systems, shaping architectures that scale across products, teams, and regulatory environments. You will lead complex, cross-cutting engineering initiatives that span multiple organizations, influencing architectural decisions well beyond a single team. Acting as a trusted technical authority, you will set a high bar for system reliability, performance, security, and developer experience while mentoring senior engineers and contributing to Circle's engineering standards, culture, and technical strategy. What You'll Work On - Design, evolve, and steward core platform architectures to ensure scalability, reliability, and long-term resilience. - Drive architectural direction and technical strategy for critical distributed systems used across Circle's product ecosystem. - Lead cross-team, cross-functional technical initiatives in partnership with Engineering, Product, Infrastructure, Security, and Compliance. - Provide deep technical leadership and mentorship, elevating system design quality and engineering rigor across teams. - Identify and address platform-wide technical debt, architectural risks, and systemic bottlenecks. - Influence engineering-wide best practices in observability, reliability, performance, and developer experience. - Serve as a trusted technical advisor across the company, contributing to major technical decisions and long-term platform evolution. - Champion innovation, knowledge sharing, and engineering excellence as a senior technical thought leader at Circle. What You'll Bring to Circle Core Requirements - 15+ years of software engineering experience, including deep expertise designing and operating large-scale distributed systems. - Proven track record of architecting and scaling platform systems that support multiple downstream products and teams. - Ability to set long-term technical direction while making pragmatic, high-impact execution decisions. - Extensive experience operating critical, highly available systems with strong observability, reliability, and performance practices. - Exceptional system design skills, with the ability to debug and resolve complex issues across services and architectural boundaries. - Strong cross-functional collaboration skills, with demonstrated influence on technical direction beyond immediate teams. Preferred Requirements - Experience building internal developer platforms or shared services adopted broadly across an organization. - Familiarity working in regulated, compliance-heavy, or security-sensitive environments. - Track record of shaping engineering-wide practices, tools, or standards as a recognized technical leader. 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: $285,000 - $352,500 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

Role Description The Hearings Judge presides over conferences and hearings where evidence is presented pursuant to Rules of Evidence and Superior Court Rules, and issues written decisions resolving appeals filed under the Industrial Insurance Act, Crime Victims Compensation Act, Washington Industrial Safety and Health Act, and other acts as determined by the Legislature. - Each hearing judge is assigned a hearing run by geographic area. - The majority of hearings are held by video or telephone. - In-person hearings are held by request of the parties or if the judge determines an in-person hearing is necessary for other reasons (i.e., the number of expected witnesses or exhibits). - In-person hearings are held in the county where the injury occurred or where the injured worker resides. If you would like a copy of the Position Description Form and Performance Expectations, please contact the Human Resources Office at hroffice@biia.wa.gov . Qualifications - Must be an active or judicial member of the Washington State Bar Association (WSBA). - Practicing attorney for a minimum of five (5) years as a member of the WSBA or other state bar association. - Experience in industrial insurance cases before the BIIA or equivalent in another state. - Experience presiding as a judge in a court of general jurisdiction, a court commissioner, an administrative law judge, or a judge in a military tribunal. - Experience in trial practice or presiding over cases in which rules of evidence are followed. - Practicing attorney for seven (7) or more years. - Advanced litigation management skills. - Extensive knowledge of rules of evidence and procedural issues. - Clear and effective oral and written communication skills. - Proficiency in Microsoft Word and Outlook. - Excellent legal writing skills. - Accountability: Takes responsibility for own actions and can be relied upon to achieve excellent results with little need for oversight. - Adaptability to Changing Needs/Flexibility: Embraces changing business needs and adapts approach, goals, and methods to achieve success. - Customer Focus: Builds and maintains internal and external customer satisfaction with the services offered by the organization. - Diversity and Inclusion: Recognizes the value of cultural, ethnic, gender and other individual differences. - Effective Respectful Communications: Conveys clear messages that are effective in communicating information and ideas with others. - Ethics and Integrity: Earns the trust, respect, and confidence of coworkers and customers through honesty, candor, and professionalism in all interactions. - Relationship Building: Builds constructive working relationships characterized by a high level of teamwork, cooperation and mutual regard. - Safety Focus: Adhere to all workplace safety laws, regulations, standards and practices. Requirements - Washington state residency is required upon hire. - Must be able to conduct in-person hearings. - Must be able to travel to hearing sites. - This position is included in the bargaining unit represented by the Association of Industrial Appeals Judges. - Candidates who reside in King County will be assigned to the Renton Office and will receive a 5% premium in addition to the posted salary. - The posted salary includes a 2% general wage increase effective July 1, 2026. Benefits - Medical, dental, life insurance, long-term disability. - Retirement, deferred compensation, flexible spending account, dependent care assistance. - Paid time off (sick leave, vacation leave, personal holiday, personal leave day). - 11 paid holidays, and an Employee Assistance Program. - Tuition Reimbursement is available for eligible employees subject to guidelines and funding. Application Process Interested candidates must apply on-line and attach the following: - Cover letter specifying how you meet the qualifications listed above (no more than two pages). - Current resume. - List of at least three professional references. - Current writing sample (no more than seven pages). An excerpt of a larger writing sample is acceptable. Please attach the required documents in the "provide attachment" section of the online application (do not use the text resume within the application). Please do not attach college transcripts. Only applicants who meet the required qualifications and submit all of the required documents will be added to the recruitment pool. Questions? If you have any questions about the recruitment or application process, please contact the Human Resources Office at (360) 753-9639 or hroffice@biia.wa.gov . The Washington State Board of Industrial Insurance Appeals is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of age, sex, gender identity/expression, marital status, sexual orientation, race, creed, color, national origin, honorably discharged veteran or military status, or the presence of any sensory, mental or physical disability or the use of a trained dog guide or service animal by a person with a disability. Persons requiring reasonable accommodation in the application process or requiring this announcement in an alternative format may contact the Human Resources Office at HROffice@biia.wa.gov or call 360-753-9639 .

• Design and develop backend services and APIs using Java (Spring Boot, microservices) • Integrate services with workflow engines (Temporal.io, Camunda, Flowable, JBPM, Drools) and platforms such as Appian • Build and expose AI-enabled service capabilities for workflow automation and decision support • Use AI-assisted tools (Claude, Copilot) for: code generation, testing, documentation, development acceleration • Implement AI-native workflow patterns, including: intelligent routing, context-aware processing, embedded decision support • Develop microservices and event-driven architectures supporting distributed workflow execution • Collaborate with data teams for data access, validation, and transformation • Support service orchestration and runtime workflow execution • Contribute to CI/CD, DevSecOps, and cloud-native deployments: OpenShift / Kubernetes / AWS • Participate in code reviews, design discussions, and cross-team collaboration.

• Design, develop, and maintain web applications using Python, JavaScript, Typescript, HTML, and CSS • Build and operate GitLab CI/CD pipelines including multi-project build orchestration, container image builds (Kaniko), and Helm-based deployments to EKS (Kubernetes) • Develop AI agent tooling — steering files, skills libraries, prompt engineering, and integrations with AI coding assistants • Create and maintain a shared design system (CSS tokens, components, layout primitives) consumed across all products • Develop data visualization dashboards pulling live data from GitLab APIs (epics, issues, metrics) into SQL backed web apps to support project health metrics • Implement developer experience tools including web analytics and OKR tracking • Deploy and manage containerized applications on AWS EKS with Helm charts, GitLab Agents, and feature-branch environments