Circle is the world’s leading branded community platform.

We serve more than 10 million members in communities run by some of the world’s top creators and institutions — including Ali Abdaal, Dr. Becky, Jay Shetty, Harvard, SpaceX, and Oprah Winfrey.

We’re a fully remote company of 180+ team members based in 30+ countries in the world.

Circle

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Circle is building the world’s leading all-in-one platform for online communities. We make 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, all under their own brand.

We’re proud to be a fully remote company of around 200 (and growing!) team members from 30+ countries around the world. We seek exceptional individuals around the world, set them up to do the best work of their lives, and in turn, create a meaningful impact in their own lives. 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.

Twice a year, we bring the whole company together in beautiful places around the world for our company offsites. So far, we’ve hosted offsites in Turkey, Portugal, Mexico, Thailand, Colombia, Italy, Ireland, and more, with still more to come!

The Applied AI team at Circle is at the forefront of leveraging AI to drive innovation for our customers through transformative applications of large language models (LLMs).

We're looking for a strong full-stack engineer who is proficient in web frameworks, backend development, and infrastructure to spearhead the development of full-stack AI solutions across Circle. You will work on exciting projects such as AI agents, Retrieval-Augmented Generation, AI evaluations and observability, and building infrastructure for LLM inference.

While deep AI specialization or expertise isn't required, we care about some hands-on experience building AI features. Beyond that, we’re looking for a strong experimentation mindset. If you're excited about rapidly testing ideas, running A/B experiments, and iterating on real production use cases of LLMs, this role is for you.

The Applied AI team is composed of different backgrounds. Some team members joined with deep Rails experience and solid AI fundamentals, while other team members joined with deep AI experience and ramped up on Rails. Either path works as long as you bring hands-on experience with both Rails and AI and have genuine curiosity to grow.

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, AI evaluations, or others) 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 and designers throughout the feature design process.

Foster a bias for action by prioritizing speed of iteration, experimentation, and learning, while maintaining high standards of code quality and user experience.

 working as a full-stack engineer on high-traffic production applications. You've dealt with the challenges that come with scale — query optimization, careful migrations, performance bottlenecks.

Ruby on Rails, MySQL / Postgresql, ReactJS

. Familiarity with both frontend and backend is necessary, but a high degree of proficiency in both is not a requirement.

Hands-on experience building AI features in production — whether RAG systems, AI agents, or LLM-powered tools. You've shipped at least one real AI use case, not just prototypes.

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.

You are proficient in English (spoken, written, and reading) at a 

Circle offers U.S.-benchmarked compensation globally, equity in the company with ongoing refresh grants, and 35 days of paid time off each year.

We’re a remote-only team that comes together twice a year for company retreats in incredible destinations around the world. Alongside incredible flexibility and autonomy, we offer a benefits package that supports health, wellbeing, and professional growth. Learn more in our 

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Circle is seeking a Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer for their Applied AI team to build and scale AI-powered features. The role involves developing AI agents and RAG systems using Ruby on Rails and React, with a strong focus on experimentation and production-level LLM inference.

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Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer, Applied AI

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People are looking for more than content. They're looking for growth, connection, and transformation — experiences that change how they see themselves and the world. Circle is where they find that. Not another platform optimizing for clicks and consumption — a place built around becoming something.

Discover is where Circle becomes visible to the world — the surface where creators get found and people find experiences worth their time. It's a two-sided marketplace problem spanning communities, courses, events, and more. And it's one of the most genuinely interesting design challenges on the platform.

You'll own Discover end-to-end as the lead designer: identifying opportunities, setting design direction, and shipping work that raises the bar for how discovery feels at Circle. You'll work closely with a founder-led product team that has strong vision and high standards — and you'll bring the craft, the systems thinking, and the bottom-up ideas that make that vision real.

You'll be joining a design team where context is shared openly, ownership is real, and talented people are trusted to do their best work.

This role is for designers with deep experience in consumer marketplace products — owning discovery, ranking, and engagement at scale; if your background is primarily in internal tools, CMS platforms, or growth systems, this role will not be a fit — please apply to our 

Discovery is one of the hardest design problems. You're serving two audiences with opposing needs simultaneously: creators who need visibility, trust signals, and growth; and consumers who need signal through noise, confidence to commit, and experiences that deliver on their promise.

What makes this genuinely novel is AI as the core interaction model — not a filter or a recommendation widget, but the primary way Discover understands intent and surfaces what's worth someone's time. How does an AI-driven experience build trust in a marketplace? How do you make an AI-driven surface feel like a trusted recommendation from someone who knows you, not a ranked list from a system that doesn't? These are real open questions, and the quality of the answers will show up directly in the product.

 Identify opportunities, frame problems, set design direction, and ship. You connect dots across the platform — understanding how a community business compound product feeds into what Discover surfaces — and you make that systems understanding visible in every design decision.

 The new world UX is conversational and relational. You'll design the interfaces, curation experiences, and trust signals that make AI-driven discovery feel effortless — building the relationship between the platform, creators, and members in ways that feel human, not algorithmic.

 You understand what makes a marketplace work at a systems level — how creator visibility gets earned, how consumer confidence gets built, how one broken experience erodes trust on both sides. That understanding drives your design decisions, not just your surface-level execution.

 You use AI-assisted tools — Cursor, Claude Code, v0, Lovable — because you've already figured out it's how ideas get stress-tested fast. You stay in the problem through to launch, working closely with engineers to close the gap between concept and shipped experience.

 You raise the craft standard on Discover through the quality of your own work and how you develop designers alongside you. You give real feedback and set a high bar.

You are proficient in English (spoken, written, and reading) at a 

Marketplace or two-sided platform experience — this is a hard requirement.

 You've designed for both sides of a market. You know what breaks trust and what builds it. Your portfolio shows you shaped outcomes, not just interfaces.

, including shipped 0→1 work, complex multi-user flows, and clear evidence that you drove product direction — not just executed it.

Experience as the most senior designer on a product area

 — setting direction, making tradeoffs, and owning outcomes without constant guidance.

Genuine fluency with AI-assisted prototyping.

 You build realistic prototypes yourself using tools like Cursor, Claude Code, v0, or Lovable. This is how you think, not just how you produce. You can speak concretely about your process.

 for high-fidelity design and cross-functional collaboration.

 You share your thinking before you're asked, surface decisions early, give real opinions, and keep your team informed without being prompted. At Circle, communication is how trust gets built and work gets shipped.

 Discover is still taking shape. You build conviction through iteration, not by waiting for perfect requirements.

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.

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.

Your role, location and unique circumstance may affect this.

At Circle, the safety and trust of our candidates is extremely important to us. Unfortunately, recruiting fraud is increasingly common in the job market, and bad actors sometimes impersonate companies or employees.


To help protect you, here’s what you can expect from our hiring process:

All applications are submitted through our official applicant tracking system (Greenhouse).

If selected to move forward, you may be invited to record a short introductory video, or directly into a live interview.

All live interviews are conducted face-to-face over video (Zoom or Google Meet) with a member of the Circle team.

 conduct interviews via chat apps or messaging platforms.

All official communication from Circle will come from 

, or an email address ending in @circle.co or @circle.so.

We will never contact you from unofficial domains (such as “.team”, “.careers”, or similar variations).

We will never request sensitive personal information early in the process, or ask for payment of any kind.

If you receive a suspicious message claiming to be from Circle, please do not respond.


We appreciate your vigilance, and look forward to connecting with you through our official channels.

As a fully-remote international company, diversity is baked into our DNA. Here’s how our CEO, Sid Yadav, frames our hiring mission: “let’s find talent in underserved and under-represented corners of the world, set them up to do the best work of their lives, and in turn, change their life.” To achieve this hiring mission, we offer competitive U.S. benchmarked compensation no matter where someone’s located in the world, and we proactively seek candidates who expand representation of backgrounds, cultures and lived experiences in our teams.

Circle is an equal opportunity employer and as such, we do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws. If you require any accommodations during the recruitment process, please let us know and we will work with you to meet your needs.

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Contact information (such as name, email address, phone number)

References and any other information you choose to share with us during the application process

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By submitting your application, you acknowledge that you have read and understood this privacy notice.

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Circle is seeking a Lead Product Designer to own the end-to-end design of its Discover marketplace. The role focuses on building AI-driven discovery experiences for creators and consumers using Figma and AI-assisted prototyping tools like Cursor and Claude. Candidates must have extensive experience with two-sided platforms and shipping 0→1 products.

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Lead Product Designer, Marketplace

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You’ll own design for one of Circle’s most important product areas. That means you define the problem, shape the direction, and ship the experience—not wait for a brief. The specific area will be determined based on your strengths and company priorities.

You’ll report into the product design organization and work as the most senior design IC on your product area, partnering directly with product managers, engineers, and design leadership. You’ll also work alongside other Leads across Circle’s product surface. As the team grows, you’ll be expected to raise the bar for the designers around you.

AI is not a section on this job description—it’s how we work. Circle’s design team builds with AI tools daily: exploring product directions, prototyping with code-generation tools, stress-testing ideas faster than traditional workflows allow. We’re looking for someone who already works this way and wants to push it further.

Own a product area end-to-end: identify opportunities, frame the problem, set design direction, and ship—operating as a peer to Product and Engineering, not a downstream executor

Design complex, multi-step product flows that serve multiple user types—balancing creator needs against member experience, and making sophisticated behavior feel simple

Prototype and test at speed—using AI-assisted tools, code-generation workflows, and whatever gets you to a testable concept fastest

Influence product strategy beyond your own surface: contribute to roadmap conversations, flag opportunities other teams miss, and connect dots across the product

Drive the craft standard on your area—interaction design, visual quality, and the small details that separate polished product from “good enough”

Collaborate closely with engineers and design engineers to turn concepts into working, shippable experiences—not hand off specs and hope

Raise the bar for the broader design team through feedback, shared frameworks, and the quality of your own output

5–7+ years of product design experience. Your portfolio should show systems-level thinking: shipped 0→1 work, complex multi-user flows, and evidence that you shaped the product direction—not just the interface

Experience operating as the most senior designer on a product area—setting direction, making tradeoffs, and owning outcomes without constant guidance

Strong prototyping skills—you build clickable, realistic prototypes yourself. Bonus if you’re already using AI-assisted prototyping tools like Cursor, Claude Code, v0, or Lovable

Proficiency in Figma for high-fidelity design and collaboration

Exceptional written and verbal communication—able to clearly explain complex ideas, influence decisions, and align teams asynchronously. You write well because that’s how decisions get made in a distributed team

Comfortable designing in ambiguity and building conviction through iteration, not waiting for perfect requirements

An active, evolving AI workflow—you already use AI tools in your design process and can speak concretely about how. This isn’t a checkbox; it’s a real part of how we evaluate fit

We are hiring at a Lead level for this role; however, we may consider offering this position at the Senior level depending on a candidate’s experience level alignment with the role. In either case, the offer would fall within the published compensation range.

Circle is seeking a Lead Product Designer to own key product areas end-to-end, from problem definition to shipping. The role involves designing complex multi-user flows and utilizing AI-assisted tools like Cursor and Figma to accelerate prototyping. This is a fully remote position requiring strong systems-level thinking and asynchronous communication skills.

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