Responsibilities
- Work autonomously on a product built in Ruby on Rails backend and React front-end.
- Build critical features and improvements for our web app, with a product-first mindset.
- 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, prioritizing speed of iteration without compromising on the quality of code or user experience.
Requirements
- Strong alignment with our values
- 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.
- Familiarity with both frontend and backend is necessary, but a high degree of proficiency in both is not a requirement.
- 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.
- Motivation to understand the business, our users, their requirements, and to deliver results.
- Comfortable in a fast-paced environment with a certain level of ambiguity.
- Great communication skills both in writing and verbal/oral (English).
- Adaptable with the ability to change direction quickly if necessary.
- Familiar with agile software development principles.
- Should be able to lead a complex project end to end with judgment and an attention to detail when it comes to architectural, product, design, and process decisions, your judgment should inspire a high level of trust within the team.
- Experience working on a fully distributed remote team.
Nice to Have
- Experience with Elasticsearch / Sidekiq / Kafka / LLM APIs / Graph Databases / Data Science.
- Previous experience working with community platforms.
- Experience working on CRM, workflow automations solutions, recommendation systems or in the creator space.
- Experience at a fast-growing start-up.
- A track record of picking up new technologies and skills as you ship high-quality code.
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 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!
Work Arrangement
Remote (Worldwide)
Team
Team size: around 200 (and growing!). Structure: fully remote company
Additional Information
- 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.
- English
