Responsibilities
- Ship full-stack AI projects end-to-end on a product built in Ruby on Rails backend and React frontend.
- Design and run experiments (including A/B tests on AI evals or other metrics) to validate AI features, measure impact, and guide iteration.
- Build and integrate components for AI infrastructure and optimize them for performance and reliability to support production-level inferencing.
- Improve processes, tools, and systems to scale AI features into production-ready solutions.
- Help us stay up-to-date with the cutting-edge AI research, techniques, and tools.
- Work closely with Circle's leaders throughout the feature design process.
- Work closely with our designers to create a world-class user experience.
- Foster a bias for action by prioritizing speed of iteration, experimentation, and learning, while maintaining high standards of code quality and user experience.
Requirements
- 5+ years experience working as a full-stack engineer on complex web applications with significant scale (100k+ rpm, 100GB+ databases).
- Strong proficiency in Ruby on Rails, MySQL / Postgresql, ReactJS.
- Strong experimentation mindset — you’re comfortable designing and running A/B tests, measuring results, and iterating quickly to discover what works and what doesn’t.
- A desire to work in an environment which values speed of iteration and individual autonomy, while also embracing personal accountability and the ability to collaborate effectively as part of a dynamic team.
- Comfortable in a fast-paced environment with a certain level of ambiguity, especially when learning and picking up new technologies when projects require it.
- 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.
Nice to Have
- Experience building backend systems and infrastructure for AI-driven products.
- You have a track record of working on full-stack AI projects, including deploying at least 1 production-ready use case of LLMs at scale.
Benefits
- 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 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!
Work Arrangement
Remote (Worldwide)
Team
Team size: around 200 (and growing!)
Additional Information
- You are proficient in English (spoken, written, and reading) at a CEFR Level C2 / ILR Level 5.


