Senior Engineering Manager - Onboarding & Compliance Platform

Circle; Salt Lake City (UT); On-site; USD 218,000 - 264,000; Full time

Job summary

Circle, a world‑leading internet financial platform, seeks a Senior Engineering Manager for Risk and Compliance Engineering. You will lead a team building Circle's centralized customer onboarding and lifecycle management platform, enabling secure, compliant experiences across jurisdictions.

You will guide architecture, delivery, and operations while mentoring senior engineers and collaborating with Product, Risk, Compliance, and Fraud teams to scale impact.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, incl. 3+ years of people management.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Strong background in scalable distributed systems, APIs, and backend platforms.
• Experience providing technical guidance, coaching, and mentoring senior engineers.
• Experience making architectural decisions and delivering secure, reliable systems.
• Strong leadership, execution, and cross-functional collaboration, including hiring and performance management.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop the engineering team for Circle's onboarding & lifecycle platform.
• Build scalable onboarding automation across Circle's products.
• Design unified customer lifecycle platform for changes in relationships and onboarding.
• Develop partner-facing APIs and SDKs for onboarding in third-party apps.
• Create onboarding capabilities for eligibility, verification, and jurisdiction compliance.
• Partner with Product, Risk, Compliance, Fraud, and Engineering to enable lifecycle changes.
• Drive architecture decisions, reliability, security, and operational excellence.

Skills

Distributed systems

APIs

Coaching

Leadership

Cross-functional

Hiring

Performance management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Equivalent practical experience

Job description

Circle, a world‑leading internet financial platform, seeks a Senior Engineering Manager for Risk and Compliance Engineering. You will lead a team building Circle's centralized customer onboarding and lifecycle management platform, enabling secure, compliant experiences across jurisdictions.

You will guide architecture, delivery, and operations while mentoring senior engineers and collaborating with Product, Risk, Compliance, and Fraud teams to scale impact.