Staff Software Engineer, Gemini
Acquisition & Activation
$172-215k
+ Discretionary annual bonus + New hire equity grant
2+ days a week in office
Cryptocurrency exchange platform
Open for applications
Cryptocurrency exchange platform
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$172-215k
+ Discretionary annual bonus + New hire equity grant
2+ days a week in office
1001+ employees
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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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
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Leadership
Tyler Winklevoss
(CEO)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.
Cameron Winklevoss
(President)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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