Jobs at First Circle

Partners with business leaders on workforce strategy, employee relations, performance management, hiring quality, onboarding, manager standards, and scalable people programs. Uses HR and workforce data to diagnose attrition, ramp-up, engagement, and performance issues, then builds measurable processes, dashboards, templates, and automation. Advises on Philippine labor law and supports fair, consistent talent decisions in a fast-growing fintech environment.

Supports end-to-end event and partnership execution, including logistics, supplier coordination, booth setup, onsite representation, lead tracking, performance reporting, and market research. Collaborates with internal teams, business organizations, event organizers, and vendors to deliver acquisition initiatives. The role involves flexible schedules, hands-on event work, nationwide travel, and occasional physical logistics support.

Lead First Circle’s launch and scaling in Malaysia by establishing the local entity, managing licensing and regulatory workstreams, defining country, product, pricing, and risk strategies, delivering launch KPIs, building stakeholder relationships, recruiting the founding team, and overseeing hands-on underwriting, operations, and customer execution.

Lead the strategy, development, launch, and growth of the company’s SME Cards product. Own product metrics and business outcomes while collaborating with engineering, design, data, and business teams. Use analytical and strategic thinking to identify opportunities, solve complex fintech problems, and deliver customer impact in a fast-paced, high-performance environment. Periodic travel to Manila is required.

The General Counsel leads legal, compliance, AML, data protection, risk, corporate governance, and company secretarial functions across the fintech group. Responsibilities include advising on strategic transactions and expansion, managing regulatory relationships and filings, overseeing AML and privacy programs, maintaining corporate records, handling special projects, and building and leading the legal team.

Legal Counsel supports the General Counsel with day-to-day legal advice, contract drafting and negotiation, operational legal matters, corporate secretarial duties, SEC filings, corporate records, compliance tracking, and special projects. The role requires commercial judgment, strong communication, independent execution, and timely escalation of significant risks in a fast-paced fintech environment.

Build and maintain multi-cloud infrastructure across Azure and DigitalOcean, focusing on security, scalability, automation, CI/CD, monitoring, and cost optimization. The role includes architecting cloud and network infrastructure, managing Kubernetes and containerized workloads, supporting deployments, developing developer tooling, maintaining observability solutions, and collaborating with IT, security, and engineering stakeholders in a regulated fintech environment.

Process SME loan application documents by scraping and encoding financial data, checking audited financial statements and tax returns, identifying and correcting discrepancies, organizing files, and running credit checks. The role requires accurate high-volume data entry, attention to detail, collaboration, and meeting operational deadlines in a hybrid fintech environment.

Manage sales operations for a 200-person sales division by reporting on performance, conducting analysis, identifying improvement opportunities, designing solutions, refining processes, and executing or automating recurring workflows. The role requires strong analytical and problem-solving skills, SQL proficiency, cross-functional collaboration, and an execution-oriented approach.

Manage operations for new product launches, including reporting on product performance, conducting analyses, identifying improvement opportunities, designing solutions, refining processes, and executing or automating recurring workflows. Partner cross-functionally to implement changes and support growth across financial products such as credit cards, invoice financing, payments, and payroll.

Lead the full inbound engine from digital performance marketing through CRM and sales conversion. Manage a ~10-person team, run paid/organic channels, build partnerships and referral channels, close inbound and specialist sales, and influence brand and GTM strategy to double inbound volume and diversify channels within 12 months.

The Data Analytics Lead will work with senior leadership on strategic projects, focusing on high-impact analytics solutions and driving execution for tangible results.

The Acquisition Manager is responsible for business development and sales of First Circle's Revolving Credit Line product, focusing on relationship building and leveraging quality leads provided by the company.

Lead end-to-end origination of debt and equity funding: source and close investor relationships, prepare investor materials, structure and execute facilities including securitisations, manage investor reporting and covenant compliance, build financial models, negotiate term sheets, and scale capital markets systems and processes.

Lead the fraud and risk strategy for a FinTech company, overseeing fraud detection, prevention, and risk management while collaborating with various teams.

Lead the fraud and risk strategy for First Circle, overseeing detection and prevention strategies, and collaborating with various teams to implement risk solutions.

Lead and scale sales operations, improve processes, build reporting infrastructure, manage a sales ops team, and collaborate cross-functionally.

Manage and nurture relationships with SME clients, assess financial needs, recommend tailored financing solutions, manage a client portfolio to ensure retention, identify upsell/cross-sell opportunities, resolve client issues, and coordinate with internal teams to deliver seamless service.

First Circle is seeking junior software engineers to help build neobanking solutions for SMEs in the Philippines. The role offers personal responsibility, mentorship, and opportunities for zero-to-one product development. Candidates should have problem-solving skills and ideally a background in engineering or computer science, though professional experience is not required.

The Senior Software Engineer will develop solutions for a fintech neobank, focusing on building in-house products and solving complex challenges. Responsibilities include collaborating as part of a team and engaging in personal growth.