Circle is building the world’s leading all-in-one platform for online communities. We make it possible for creators, coaches, educators, and businesses to bring together their audience with engaging discussions, live streams, events, chat, courses, and payments — all in one place, all under their own brand.
We’re proud to be a fully remote company of around 200 (and growing!) team members from 30+ countries around the world. We seek exceptional individuals around the world, set them up to do the best work of their lives, and in turn, create a meaningful impact in their own lives. We don't track hours, but we do manage for high expectations very closely. We collaborate across time zones, are highly async, and like to document a lot.
Twice a year, we bring the whole company together in beautiful places around the world for our company offsites. So far, we’ve hosted offsites in Turkey, Portugal, Mexico, Thailand, Colombia, Italy, Ireland, and more, with still more to come!
Check out our Careers page for more about working at Circle.
About the role
We’re looking for a Senior Full-Stack Engineer to join our Growth Engineering team. This team drives some of Circle’s most critical initiatives: billing and plan infrastructure, trial and onboarding flows, A/B experimentation, and now — expanding into analytics and member experiences. With millions of members engaging across Circle communities, the work you do here will have an outsized impact. If you thrive in a data-driven environment, love refining experiences to feel seamless and intuitive, and want to help scale the systems that power growth at Circle, this role is for you.
What you’ll be doing- Shipping often and with care, balancing speed with thoughtful, quality work.
- Owning end-to-end projects — from concept and development to rollout and measurable results.
- Partnering with engineers, designers and product leaders to craft member experiences that feel beautiful, simple, and premium.
- Scaling our billing infrastructure to support both self-service and sales-led use cases.
- Designing and implementing A/B tests to validate changes that boost user acquisition, retention, and expansion.
- Building world-class analytics that empower community owners with deep insights to understand and grow their communities.
- Implementing event instrumentation for each initiative to ensure impact can be tracked.
- Strong alignment with our values, find our values on our career page if you haven’t read up on them yet.
- You are proficient in English (spoken, written, and reading) at a CEFR Level C2 / ILR Level 5.
- 6+ years experience working as a full-stack engineer on complex web applications.
- Strong proficiency in Ruby on Rails, MySQL/Postgresql, ReactJS, TypeScript, CSS/SCCS, TailwindCSS.
- Solid experience in both frontend and backend development is expected, though deep expertise in both isn’t required. You should be able to independently build features end-to-end, and excelling more in one area than the other is perfectly fine.
- Proven track record of shipping customer-facing or consumer-facing experiences and solving hard problems.
- Comfortable in highly collaborative environments, working closely with stakeholders across engineering, product, design, and go-to-market teams.
- Experience working in a growth-oriented engineering role.
- Familiarity with billing tools or payments infrastructure (Stripe).
- Hands-on experience building or maintaining analytics systems, with a solid understanding of observability best practices.
The cash compensation range shown is a starting point. In addition to equity, benefits and perks, your cash compensation is subject to an annual review and increase on a once per year basis.
- Fully remote: work from anywhere in the world!
- Autonomy and trust to do your job: we care about outcomes over everything else.
- Paid time away: all employees are given 35 days of PTO annually. We also offer a paid sabbatical after 5 years.
- Generous U.S. benchmarked compensation and startup equity no matter where you are in the world.*
- Awesome medical coverage with 100% coverage for you and your family, or medical reimbursement options where applicable!*
- Parental leave for parents expanding their family, or just starting one.
- Home office stipend to help you get up and running.
- Learning & development stipend to help you level up your professional skills.
- Annual bonus potential for roles that don't already receive variable income or commission.
- Company retreats: Twice a year, the Circle team gets together for a fully paid company retreat in incredible places around the world! We’ve had past retreats in Colombia, Portugal, and Mexico, with more planned on the horizon.
- Check out our Careers page for more.
*Your role, location and unique circumstance may affect this.
Candidate Safety & Interview Process NoticeTo help protect you, here’s what you can expect from our hiring process:
- All applications are submitted through our official applicant tracking system (Greenhouse).
- If selected to move forward, you may be invited to record a short introductory video, or directly into a live interview.
- All live interviews are conducted face-to-face over video (Zoom or Google Meet) with a member of the Circle team.
- We do not conduct text-only interviews.
- We do not conduct interviews via chat apps or messaging platforms.
- We do not use AI bots to interview candidates.
- All official communication from Circle will come from [email protected], or an email address ending in @circle.co or @circle.so.
- We will never contact you from unofficial domains (such as “.team”, “.careers”, or similar variations).
- We will never request sensitive personal information early in the process, or ask for payment of any kind.
We appreciate your vigilance, and look forward to connecting with you through our official channels.
As a fully-remote international company, diversity is baked into our DNA. Here’s how our CEO, Sid Yadav, frames our hiring mission: “let’s find talent in underserved and under-represented corners of the world, set them up to do the best work of their lives, and in turn, change their life.” To achieve this hiring mission, we offer competitive U.S. benchmarked compensation no matter where someone’s located in the world, and we proactively seek candidates who expand representation of backgrounds, cultures and lived experiences in our teams.
Equal Employment OpportunityCircle is an equal opportunity employer and as such, we do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws. If you require any accommodations during the recruitment process, please let us know and we will work with you to meet your needs.
At Circle, we are committed to protecting your personal information. As a job applicant, the personal data you provide to us is collected and processed in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in the EU and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). This notice outlines the types of personal information we collect, the purpose for collecting it, and your rights.
Information We Collect: We collect the following categories of personal information from job applicants:
- Contact information (such as name, email address, phone number)
- Employment history and qualifications
- Education history
- References and any other information you choose to share with us during the application process
Purpose of Collection: We collect this information for the following purposes:
- To assess your qualifications and suitability for the position
- To communicate with you during the recruitment process
- To comply with legal and regulatory obligations
Your Rights Under GDPR and CCPA: You have the following rights regarding your personal information:
- The right to request access to the personal information we hold about you.
- The right to request the deletion of your personal information, subject to certain legal exceptions.
- The right to opt out of the sale of your personal information (Note: We do not sell personal information).
For more information about how we handle your personal data or to exercise your rights, please refer to our full Privacy Policy.
By submitting your application, you acknowledge that you have read and understood this privacy notice.
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