Manager, Engineering - Payments
Job description
Engineering Manager, Payments at Circle, leading a team that builds backend systems for financial institution onboarding, payment orchestration, and bulk payment processing across the Circle Payments Network and Managed Payments. The role is accountable for delivery, reliability, security, and financial correctness of systems that move customer funds at scale.
At a glance
- Work mode
- Remote · India
What you'll do
- 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.
What we're looking for
- 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.
Your team
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.
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About Circle
One of the world's leading internet financial platform companies
Circle (NYSE: CRCL) is an internet financial platform company whose 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.
Mission
To create an inclusive financial future, with transparency at our core; building the foundation of a more open, global economy through digital assets, payment applications, and programmable blockchain infrastructure.
Key facts
- Internet financial platform / digital assets and blockchain infrastructure
- NYSE: CRCL
- Platform includes the world's largest regulated stablecoin network anchored by USDC
- Circle Payments Network for global money movement
- Arc, an enterprise-grade blockchain designed to become the Economic OS for the internet
- Expanding into some of the world's strongest jurisdictions
- Flexible work environment
What they value
- High Integrity
- Future Forward
- Multistakeholder
- Mindful
- Driven by Excellence