Senior Director, Engineering

Circle • San Francisco, CA

1d • Remote

About The Position

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 increase global economic prosperity and advance financial inclusion. Our infrastructure—including USDC, a blockchain-based digital dollar—enables businesses, institutions, and developers to harness these breakthroughs and 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 scale globally across some of the world’s strongest regulatory jurisdictions, speed and efficiency remain critical to our success. Our culture is anchored in four core values—Multistakeholder, Mindfulness, Driven by Excellence, and High Integrity—which guide how we operate, collaborate, and lead. Circlers work in a distributed, remote-first environment that values flexibility, diversity of thought, and shared ownership. New ideas are encouraged, and everyone is a stakeholder in Circle’s success. What You’ll Be Responsible For You will set the vision, strategy, and execution for Circle’s platform UX engineering organization, ensuring frontend platforms, design systems, and shared user experience capabilities scale reliably across products. You will lead multiple engineering teams through senior managers and technical leaders, balancing long-term platform evolution with near-term delivery. Partnering closely with Product, Design, Brand, Backend Platform, Security, and Compliance leaders, you will deliver cohesive, accessible, and high-performing user experiences while building strong engineering culture, developing leaders, and establishing standards that enable teams across Circle to move faster with confidence.

Requirements

• 15+ years of software engineering experience, including 8+ years in senior technical leadership roles.
• Significant experience leading frontend or UX platform engineering organizations in a product-driven environment.
• Proven success managing multiple teams through senior managers and technical leaders.
• Deep expertise building and scaling frontend platforms, design systems, and shared UI foundations used across multiple products.
• Strong hands-on technical background in modern frontend architectures, with the ability to review code, guide system design, and lead critical technical decisions.
• Experience delivering high-quality, accessible, and high-performing user interfaces at scale, including deep knowledge of web performance and accessibility standards.
• Ability to balance long-term UX platform strategy with pragmatic execution and delivery.
• Experience partnering closely with Product, Design, and cross-functional leaders to translate user and business needs into shared frontend capabilities.
• Passion for coaching, developing leaders, and enabling teams to do their best work.
• Experience leading globally distributed, remote-first teams.
• Comfort operating in fast-paced environments with high autonomy and responsibility.

Nice To Haves

• Experience building internal developer platforms or shared services used broadly across an organization.
• Background working in regulated, security-sensitive, or compliance-heavy environments.
• Experience scaling platforms in high-growth or rapidly evolving companies.

Responsibilities

• Lead day-to-day execution across multiple platform UX engineering teams, including planning, backlog management, agile ceremonies, and operating rhythms.
• Define and drive the technical vision and roadmap for Circle’s frontend platforms, design systems, and shared UX capabilities used across products.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership on frontend architecture, performance, accessibility, and system design for large-scale, user-facing platforms.
• Establish and uphold engineering standards for frontend quality, reliability, performance, accessibility, and developer experience.
• Partner closely with Product, Design, Brand, and Backend Platform teams to deliver cohesive, scalable, and consistent user experiences.
• Attract, develop, and retain high-performing frontend engineering leaders and teams through hiring, coaching, mentoring, and performance management.
• Identify and proactively manage UX platform risks, dependencies, and technical debt while contributing to engineering-wide initiatives and cross-functional execution.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Education Level: No Education Listed