Lead Engineer, Member Growth at Circle

About Circle

Circle is building the world's leading AI powered, all in one platform for digital businesses. The platform makes 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 and all under their own brand.

Circle is a fully remote company of around 270 team members from more than 30 countries. The company seeks exceptional individuals around the world, sets them up to do the best work of their lives, and creates meaningful impact in their own lives. Circle does not track hours, but manages for high expectations closely. Teams collaborate across time zones in a highly async way and document extensively. Every year the whole company gathers in beautiful places around the world for company offsites, including Turkey, Portugal, Mexico, Thailand, Colombia, Italy, and Ireland.

About the Role

Circle's Growth team owns three pillars: Billing (SaaS billing, experimentation, and product led growth and sales led funnel infrastructure), Analytics (data visualization and architecture, ClickHouse, and LLM powered analytics Q and A), and Member Growth (onboarding, activation, and removing the friction that keeps a business from growing).

Circle is looking for a Lead Engineer to own Analytics and Member Growth. This is a hands on role. You will write a lot of the code, make hard technical calls, and lead a small team of tenured engineers. Most of the week goes to building and reviewing, and the rest goes to running the team through 1:1s, planning, and helping people grow.

You will own two things. First, how digital business owners understand what is happening in their business, including the analytics Circle AI uses to answer their questions. Second, how a new member goes from signing up to actually showing up. Millions of people join and use Circle every month, so small changes here have an outsized impact.

What You Will Be Doing

• Lead, grow, and coach a team of engineers across Analytics and Member Growth while remaining hands on: reviewing designs and pull requests, and shipping code daily.
• Own the technical strategy and architecture for Circle's analytics stack: rich, interactive data visualizations, ClickHouse data infrastructure, and LLM powered experiences that let business owners ask questions about their data in natural language.
• Own the roadmap for Member Growth: onboarding flows, activation, and reducing friction between a new member and real engagement in a community.
• Partner with product, design, data, and leadership to turn ambiguous problems into a cohesive, data informed growth roadmap with measurable outcomes.
• Work AI first. Use agents for planning, coding, review, and triage; stay critical of what they produce and help the team build shared tools that make everyone faster.
• Design and oversee A/B tests and experimentation to validate changes that improve activation, retention, and community health.
• Hire, mentor, and develop engineers, and run performance and career growth processes for your team.

What You Need to Be Successful

• Prior experience leading or managing engineering teams. You have led engineers on large initiatives, set direction, reviewed their work, and helped them improve while remaining one of the strongest builders on the team.
• A product mindset: you understand customers deeply enough to question and shape requirements, not just implement them, and you are comfortable making fast, independent decisions following SaaS and product best practices.
• 7+ years of experience shipping production software on complex web applications, including experience with Ruby on Rails, MySQL or PostgreSQL, ReactJS, and TypeScript.
• A strong track record in at least one of: data and analytics infrastructure (for example ClickHouse, data warehousing, BI), or growth and lifecycle product engineering (onboarding, activation, retention); exposure to both is a strong plus.
• Comfort in highly collaborative environments, working closely with stakeholders across engineering, product, design, and go to market teams.
• Ability to operate well in ambiguous, fast moving problem spaces and translate findings into clear priorities for your team.
• Strong alignment with Circle's values, which can be found on the careers page.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills in English (CEFR C2 or equivalent), as most collaboration at Circle happens asynchronously.

Bonus Points

• Experience shipping LLM powered product features, such as natural language data Q and A or AI agents.
• Familiarity with billing tools or payments infrastructure (Stripe).
• Experience working in a growth oriented or product led growth engineering organization.

Compensation and Benefits

Circle offers U.S. benchmarked compensation globally, equity in the company with ongoing refresh grants, and 35 days of paid time off each year. The base compensation for this role is $162,000 USD per year, and U.S. benchmarked compensation and equity are provided regardless of where you live.

Circle is a remote only team that comes together twice a year for company retreats in incredible destinations around the world. Alongside flexibility and autonomy, Circle offers a benefits package that supports health, wellbeing, and professional growth.