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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.\nWhat you’ll be part of:\nCircle 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.\nWhat you'll be responsible for\nCircle's Payments engineering organization builds the infrastructure that moves value across the Circle Payments Network (CPN) and Managed Payments, connecting banks, payment service providers (PSPs), and fintechs to fast, low-cost, always-on cross-border settlement in USDC and EURC. As Engineering Manager, Payments, you'll lead a team responsible for backend systems that power financial institution onboarding, payment orchestration, and bulk payment processing. You'll be accountable for the delivery, reliability, security, and financial correctness of systems that move customer funds at scale, while developing a high-performing engineering team and partnering closely with stakeholders across Circle.\nWhat you'll work on\nLead the day-to-day execution of an engineering team, including planning, prioritization, delivery, and continuous improvement of team processes.\n\nProvide technical and architectural direction for payment orchestration, ledger and reconciliation systems, and bank or PSP integrations handling high transaction volumes.\n\nPartner with Product, Compliance, Risk, and Solutions Engineering to define roadmaps and deliver cross-border payouts, managed stablecoin settlement, and bulk payment capabilities.\n\nOwn engineering delivery for key Payments initiatives, including regulated and managed payments expansion, while coordinating effectively across India- and US-based teams.\n\nEnsure the reliability, security, operational readiness, and financial correctness of payment-critical systems, including incident response and on-call practices.\n\nRecruit, coach, and develop engineers while owning performance management, career development, feedback, and promotion processes for direct reports.\n\nDrive engineering goals aligned to Payments business outcomes, including geographic expansion, transaction growth, customer experience, and reliable market launches across APAC and Africa.\n\nWhat you'll bring to Circle\nCore Requirements\n7+ years of software engineering experience, including 2+ years of experience managing or formally leading software engineering teams.\n\nExperience designing, building, and operating distributed, highly available backend systems in production environments.\n\nExperience building or operating payments, banking, or financial transaction systems such as payment orchestration, ledgers, reconciliation, or settlement.\n\nStrong hands-on technical leadership skills, including architecture reviews, system design, technical trade-off discussions, and code-level guidance.\n\nProficiency in one or more backend programming languages such as Java, Go, or Kotlin.\n\nExperience recruiting, coaching, developing, and performance-managing engineers, including senior-level individual contributors.\n\nStrong cross-functional collaboration skills and the ability to partner effectively with Product, Compliance, Risk, and external financial partners.\n\nPreferred Requirements\nExperience with cross-border payments, correspondent banking, stablecoins, blockchain-based settlement rails, or integrations with banks and payment service providers.\n\nFamiliarity with financial compliance concepts such as KYC/KYB, Travel Rule requirements, transaction monitoring, and regulated payments environments.\n\nAdditional role requirement\nThis role requires regular working-hour overlap with US-based teams to support effective cross-time-zone collaboration across the Payments engineering organization.\n\nCircle 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.\nStarting 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.\nWe 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.\nShould you require accommodations or assistance in our interview process because of a disability, please reach out to  for support. 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