Manager, Engineering - Payments

About the role

As Engineering Manager, Payments, you'll lead a team responsible for backend systems that power financial institution onboarding, payment orchestration, and bulk payment processing. You'll be accountable for the delivery, reliability, security, and financial correctness of systems that move customer funds at scale, while developing a high-performing engineering team and partnering closely with stakeholders across Circle.

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
• 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

What you need

• 7–13 yrs of experience
• Reconciliation
• Compliance
• Incident response
• Performance management
• System design
• Java
• Any graduate

Good to have

• KYC
• AML
• Go
• Kotlin