Staff Software Engineer, Gemini

Acquisition & Activation

$172-215k

+ Discretionary annual bonus + New hire equity grant

AWS
Scala
Senior and Expert level
New York

2+ days a week in office

Gemini

Cryptocurrency exchange platform

Be an early applicant

Gemini

Cryptocurrency exchange platform

1001+ employees

FintechB2CCryptocurrencyMarketplaceInvestingTradingBlockchain

Be an early applicant

$172-215k

+ Discretionary annual bonus + New hire equity grant

AWS
Scala
Senior and Expert level
New York

2+ days a week in office

1001+ employees

FintechB2CCryptocurrencyMarketplaceInvestingTradingBlockchain

Company mission

To unlock the next era of financial, creative and personal freedom

Role

Who you are

  • At least 8 years of software engineering experience
  • Advanced proficiency with the JVM (Scala preferred)
  • Familiarity with functional programming paradigms
  • The ability to adapt and handle multiple competing priorities in collaboration with peers
  • A customer and product-focused mindset, with the ability to make well-reasoned tradeoffs between speed and quality
  • Demonstrated ability to lead the design and development of complex, innovative software solutions
  • A history of designing, building, and working with distributed systems
  • Experience building highly observable, well monitored software

Desirable

  • Familiarity with AWS cloud infrastructure
  • Experience working with event driven architectures and messaging protocols
  • Prior experience working with gRPC and/or protobuf

What the job involves

  • As an engineer at Gemini, you’ll be directly involved in collecting, storing, and verifying the identity information of all users of Gemini
  • We are building a cross-functional, microservice based platform to support the login and registration processes across all of Gemini’s current and future product lines
  • . We are a primarily backend team working in scala
  • We have a strong culture of code reviews, and a focus on security, with the end goal of writing and shipping high-quality code by getting things right the first time
  • We want to continue building the best product we can as we scale and grow our business
  • Lead the technical side of the planning, design, and requirements process for new products and features
  • Review fellow software engineers’ code for correctness, style, and information security concerns. Provide constructive feedback, guidance, and mentorship to more junior team members
  • Constantly look to improve the performance, maintainability, and operations of the Gemini codebase by via refactoring and upgrade projects
  • Drive operational excellence by improving the instrumentation, monitoring, and alerting of your team’s production software
  • Exhibit excellent verbal and written communications skills with the ability to work closely across teams, time zones, and dependencies
  • Demonstrate sound business judgment, with a proven ability to influence others and make excellent business and technical decisions
  • Always keep our end customer in mind when making any decision

Our take

Gemini is a cryptocurrency exchange platform that's known for offering excellent security as well as being available across the US, including in New York - a state not often covered by crypto exchanges.

As a trading platform, Gemini is one of many, but a dedication to innovation and a commitment to working within FCA regulations are what make it stand out from the crowd. After acquiring Blockrize in 2021, the company launched a credit card for US customers that enables them to earn a small percentage of spending back in bitcoin rewards. They also launched the Gemini dollar, a 1:1 USD-backed stablecoin, that combines the price stability of the US dollar with the technological advantages of a cryptocurrency.

The crypto exchange market is crowded with exchange platforms, and Gemini's competitors include giants like Coinbase. However, by operating within regulations and with the recent announcement of its official registration as a digital asset service provider in Europe (where it serves more than a dozen countries), Gemini is in a strong position to face the continued crackdown on unauthorized activity in this market and make a space for itself in the DeFi future.

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Insights

Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks

-13% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Funding (1 round)

Nov 2021

$400m

GROWTH EQUITY VC

Total funding: $400m

Company benefits

  • Flexible vacation policy
  • Retirement plan matching
  • Generous parental leave
  • Comprehensive health plans
  • Training and development
  • Health and wellness perks
  • Community events

Company values

  • At Gemini, each of us is a captain of our spaceship and free to come up with new ideas to improve our journey. We’re empowered to make decisions for ourselves, for our team, and even for our leaders in order to innovate and build trust.

Company HQ

New York, NY

Leadership

Principal at Winklevoss Capital. Studied Economics at Harvard. Notorious for their role in the founding of Facebook, they co-founded Gemini with brother Cameron in 2014.

Principal at Winklevoss Capital. Studied Economics at Harvard. Notorious for their role in the founding of Facebook, they co-founded Gemini with brother Tyler in 2014.

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