Manager, Engineering - Payments
Circle
IndiaremotePosted 2 days ago
Skill Required
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Key highlights
- 7+ years software engineering experience
- 2+ years management experience
- Proficiency in Java, Go, or Kotlin
- Requires regular working-hour overlap with US-based teams
- Flexible work environment
Role overview
Circle (NYSE: CRCL) is a leading internet financial platform company building a more open, global economy through digital assets, payment applications, and programmable blockchain infrastructure, including the USDC stablecoin network, Circle Payments Network, and Arc. The Engineering Manager, Payments will lead a team responsible for backend systems powering financial institution onboarding, payment orchestration, and bulk payment processing, ensuring the delivery, reliability, security, and financial correctness of systems that move customer funds at scale.
Responsibilities
- Lead the day-to-day execution of an engineering team, including planning, prioritization, delivery, and continuous improvement of team processes.
- Provide technical and architectural direction for payment orchestration, ledger and reconciliation systems, and bank or PSP integrations handling high transaction volumes.
- Partner with Product, Compliance, Risk, and Solutions Engineering to define roadmaps and deliver cross-border payouts, managed stablecoin settlement, and bulk payment capabilities.
- Own engineering delivery for key Payments initiatives, including regulated and managed payments expansion, while coordinating effectively across India- and US-based teams.
- Ensure the reliability, security, operational readiness, and financial correctness of payment-critical systems, including incident response and on-call practices.
- Recruit, coach, and develop engineers while owning performance management, career development, feedback, and promotion processes for direct reports.
- Drive engineering goals aligned to Payments business outcomes, including geographic expansion, transaction growth, customer experience, and reliable market launches across APAC and Africa.
Requirements
- 7+ years of software engineering experience, including 2+ years of experience managing or formally leading software engineering teams.
- Experience designing, building, and operating distributed, highly available backend systems in production environments.
- Experience building or operating payments, banking, or financial transaction systems such as payment orchestration, ledgers, reconciliation, or settlement.
- Strong hands-on technical leadership skills, including architecture reviews, system design, technical trade-off discussions, and code-level guidance.
- Proficiency in one or more backend programming languages such as Java, Go, or Kotlin.
- Experience recruiting, coaching, developing, and performance-managing engineers, including senior-level individual contributors.
- Strong cross-functional collaboration skills and the ability to partner effectively with Product, Compliance, Risk, and external financial partners.
- This role requires regular working-hour overlap with US-based teams to support effective cross-time-zone collaboration across the Payments engineering organization.
Nice to have
- Experience with cross-border payments, correspondent banking, stablecoins, blockchain-based settlement rails, or integrations with banks and payment service providers.
- Familiarity with financial compliance concepts such as KYC/KYB, Travel Rule requirements, transaction monitoring, and regulated payments environments.
Benefits
- Flexible work environment where new ideas are encouraged and everyone is a stakeholder.
Additional details
- Circle's company values: High Integrity, Future Forward, Multistakeholder, Mindful, and Driven by Excellence.
- Circle'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.
- 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.
- 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 for support.
- Originally posted on Himalayas