About the role

We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer (Rails/React) to join our CMS engineering team. At Circle, our CMS team is responsible for the core user-facing areas of our product — including community discussions, courses, the Home feed, our automated weekly digests, search, and more. This is a high leverage role with the opportunity to make an immense amount of impact for thousands of Circle communities and millions of members.

What you'll be doing

Work on our CMS team to build out the best content consumption and management experience for our communities.
Improve the quality of our codebase, identify architectural deficiencies, and create achievable paths to solve/evolve them in payments-adjacent areas.
Engage in considerate, but robust, PR reviews with Circle's engineers.
Work closely with Circle's co-founders and designers throughout the feature spec + design process.

What you'll need to be successful

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.
Significant full-stack experience working with the React and Ruby on Rails stack.
Knowledge of Elasticsearch.
Experience working on high throughput and high concurrency applications.
Strong judgment and attention to detail when it comes to architectural, product, design, and process decisions. Your judgement should inspire a high level of trust within the team.
Great communication skills which empower async work across the team.
A desire to work in an environment that values speed of iteration and individual autonomy.

$130,000 - $140,000 USD per year

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.

The fun stuff

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.

Senior Full-stack Engineer (CMS)

Anywhere in the world

Remote

Senior

Circle