Circle · 12 hours ago
Staff Software Engineer
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$172K/yr - $228K/yr
7+ years expCircle 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. The Staff Software Engineer will extend Circle's blockchain systems infrastructure, build scalable microservices, and collaborate with teams to enhance Circle features, ensuring reliable and secure APIs for value transfer.
BankingBlockchainCryptocurrencyFinancial Services
Responsibilities
The Staff Software Engineer is responsible for extending Circle's in-house blockchain systems infrastructure to support the tokenization of the world; analyzing requirements, procedures, and problems to improve existing systems and modifying systems; building and owning scalable microservices that are responsible for reliable and secure APIs that transfer value and assets across all blockchain protocols as well as traditional banking protocols; collaborating with Product and Engineering teams to design, test, and shape Circle features, including developing and documenting system design procedures, testing procedures, and quality standards; troubleshooting program and system malfunctions to restore normal functioning; building publicly accessible APIs that make it simple for developers to integrate with complex payment systems; integrating Platform Services with leading banks and financial technologies; consulting with management to ensure agreement on system principles; writing the infrastructure to deliver great payment experiences, including data sources (SQL or NoSQL), messaging systems and APIs; other duties as assigned
Qualification
Required
7 years minimum professional software development experience in object oriented languages like Go or Java
Computer Science degree or a closely related field (or foreign equivalent)
Technical leadership of teams >4 on architecture and system design
Expert in one of the domains of API design, payments processing, or blockchains
Deep understanding/experience with: Architecture, design, and deployment of production-quality, scalable software
Deep understanding/experience with: Web3, blockchain, smart Contract business logic
Deep understanding/experience with: RESTful API design and development principles
Deep understanding/experience with: Cloud services (AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, etc)
Deep understanding/experience with: Container orchestration systems like Kubernetes or EKS, ECS
Deep understanding/experience with: SQL databases and designing schemas
Deep focus on coding standards and code quality -- a desire to have great test coverage to enable continuous delivery
Excellent communication skills, able to collaborate with remote teams, share ideas and present concepts effectively
Self-starter with a curious mindset, you enjoy moving at a fast pace, shipping software that improves the user experience and constantly improving your work with little supervision
Company
Circle
Circle helps businesses and developers utilize stablecoins for payments and online commerce.
1001-5000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$2.44BKey Investors
ARK Investment ManagementCoinbaseAlameda Research
2025-11-19Post Ipo Secondary· $17.7M
2025-08-14Post Ipo Secondary· $1.04B
2025-08-14Post Ipo Equity· $260M
Leadership Team
Jared Favole
Chief of Staff to CEO
Jeremy Allaire
Co-Founder, Chairman and CEO
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