Senior Back-End Software Engineer, Infra

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October 24

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Circle

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B2B • SaaS • Marketplace

Circle is an all-in-one community platform designed for creators, brands, and startups to build, engage, and monetize their communities. It integrates tools for discussions, events, courses, and membership management into a seamless experience under one customizable brand. Circle offers features such as live streaming, gamified rewards, member directories, and extensive integrations with existing tools, allowing users to create private spaces, automate workflows, and manage payments. This platform is ideal for building different types of communities including customer, course, and coaching groups, providing a space for collaboration, interaction, and growth.

51 - 200 employees

🤝 B2B

☁️ SaaS

🏪 Marketplace

📋 Description

• Maintain and modernize our Rails stack, including dependency upgrades, performance optimization and security enhancement • Build internal tools, SDKs, and libraries to improve developer experience and infrastructure scalability • Partner with your front-end counter-parts and SREs to support observability, performance, and reliability initiatives • Identify opportunities to build in-house systems that reduce reliance on costly third-party services • Contribute to architectural decisions that improve the performance, security and cost-efficiency of our platform

🎯 Requirements

• 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 • Deep expertise with Ruby on Rails, with an emphasis on infrastructure and architectural improvements • Solid experience working with MySQL and/or Postgres • A strong track record of improving performance, scalability, and system reliability • 5+ years of experience in a back-end engineering role, ideally focused on infrastructure or platform systems • Comfortable working autonomously in a fast-paced, fully remote environment

🏖️ 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! We’ve had past retreats in Colombia, Portugal, and Mexico, with more planned on the horizon. • Check out our Careers page for more.