Staff Software Engineer, Gemini
Platform, Bazel
$172-215k
Salary applicable to the State of New York, the State of California and the State of Washington applicants only. + Discretionary annual bonus and long term incentive in the form of a new hire equity grant for all
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Cryptocurrency exchange platform
Open for applications
Cryptocurrency exchange platform
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$172-215k
Salary applicable to the State of New York, the State of California and the State of Washington applicants only. + Discretionary annual bonus and long term incentive in the form of a new hire equity grant for all
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To unlock the next era of financial, creative and personal freedom
Role
Who you are
- The ideal candidate will have experience leading or contributing to the enhancement and improvement of the build tool chain at a leading software company
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
- At least 8 years of software development experience
- Advanced proficiency in at least one language. We use mostly Scala and C++ on our backend and Typescript on the frontend – it’s great if you’re comfortable in those or if you’re willing to learn
- Genuinely passionate about working with developers and improving their experience and velocity
- Experience building multi-language monorepo tooling (preferably Bazel)
- Experience with the Bazel production ecosystem (e.g. EngFlow, BuildBarn, BuildBuddy etc.)
- Experience with the integration between Bazel and IDEs such as IntelliJ and VSCode
- Experience optimizing builds, CI/CD pipelines, and/or test automation
- Experience building useful utilities and abstractions that enable other teams to deliver software faster
- Experience as a Technical Leader within a team, helping evaluating and making tech decisions for the team
- Experience training or mentoring other developers
- The ability to work closely across teams and manage dependencies
- A customer and product-focused mindset, with the ability to make well-reasoned tradeoffs between speed and quality
- The ability to adapt and handle multiple competing priorities in collaboration with peers
- Strong bias for automation
What the job involves
- Our Platform organization’s purpose is to enable Gemini to scale effectively and empower our engineering teams to focus on building innovative financial products and experiences for individuals around the world
- Platform focuses around building a scalable and secure foundations platform, enabling Engineering to deploy, validate, and operate their services in production, improve resiliency of the service and increase organizational efficiency by reducing operational toil and increase system efficiency through architectural evolution
- The Developer Productivity team is part of larger Platform organization, and architects, develops, supports, and operates the internal engineering serving services and toolsets providing capabilities empowering the software development life cycle
- We provide solutions that power local development, continuous integration and automation, continuous delivery that is not only fast but safe, and deep operational observability of running workloads
- As a Staff Software Engineer, you will play a crucial role in enhancing the engineering practices and tooling within our organization
- You will be an integral part of leading Gemini’s engineering teams towards modern DevOps practices, both by developing and providing modern automation and operational tooling, and working cross functionally across Gemini’s engineering teams to influence and shape our development practices and culture
- You will be working closely with peers on the Platform, Security, and development teams, as well as business stakeholders to ensure that our development teams are equipped with the best practices, processes, and tools to deliver high-quality software efficiently
- Improve developer feedback cycles by optimizing builds, speeding up compiling and testing
- Develop utilities and patterns to increase developer productivity
- Develop linters and other static analysis tools to increase safety
- Improve feedback cycles at all levels of development (examples: improving the experience of iterating on code locally, deploying to test environments, deploying to production)
- Improve organization wide concerns (examples: identifying and fixing build bottlenecks, improving the observability of running systems, language and library upgrades)
- Help other technologists at Gemini be more effective in their roles, through tool and library improvements
- Provide technical input and knowledge to the planning, design, and requirements process for new products and features
- Review other software engineers’ code for correctness, style, and information security concerns
- Improve the performance, maintainability, and operations of the Gemini code base by engaging in occasional refactoring and upgrade projects
- Support your team’s production software by responding to an occasional alert or bug report
- Be an expert and guide for Gemini’s best practices in engineering
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 Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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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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