Expense management and payroll automation for mid-market European companies
Circula operates a Java/Kotlin backend on Spring Boot + MongoDB, with a React/TypeScript frontend and AWS infrastructure — a mature, polyglot stack typical of regulated fintech. The hiring mix skews heavily toward senior talent in sales and marketing (9 of 15 roles), alongside engineering expansion, suggesting a shift from product-led to sales-led motion as the company scales across SMB Europe. Pain points cluster around compliance automation and manual finance workflows, mapping directly to their product roadmap (finance automation backend, credit card product, benefits platform).
Circula is an expense management and payroll automation platform for small and medium-sized European businesses. The product handles employee travel expenses, corporate credit cards, and benefits administration while automating compliance workflows and reducing manual accounting overhead. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Berlin. Circula operates across multiple product layers: a core expense platform, a finance automation backend, a corporate credit card product, and an emerging employee benefits offering. The platform serves over 150,000 employees at European mid-market companies.
Backend: Spring Boot, Kotlin, Java, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, RabbitMQ. Frontend: React, TypeScript, Next.js. Infrastructure: AWS and GCP. CI/CD: CircleCI. Version control: GitHub.
Circula is headquartered in Berlin, Germany. The company has 51–200 employees and was founded in 2017.
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