Senior Engineer

About the Company

Gemini is a global crypto and Web3 platform founded by Tyler Winklevoss and Cameron Winklevoss in 2014. Gemini offers a wide range of crypto products and services for individuals and institutions in over 70 countries.

Our flagship product, the Gemini Exchange, was built to be a compliant and secure platform to buy, sell, and store crypto. Our suite of retail products includes ActiveTrader, a high-performance platform for advanced traders. Gemini also offers the Gemini Credit Card providing real-time crypto rewards, the Gemini dollar (GUSD), a U.S. dollar-backed stablecoin, and Gemini Staking, allowing users to securely stake their tokens on-chain and receive rewards. Nifty Gateway, Gemini's NFT platform, is the world's premier marketplace for NFTs and digital art.

Gemini customers also have access to a wide range of institutional products tailor-made for high-net-worth individuals, asset and wealth managers, and hedge funds and liquidity providers seeking exposure to crypto. Customers looking to place large orders can use Gemini eOTC, a fully-electronic over-the-counter trading platform built for high-value bulk orders. For wealth management professionals, we offer a unique destination for their clients’ crypto portfolios from a single platform, and we enable fully electronic clearing and settlement of off-exchange crypto trades.

The Department: Technology

The Role: Senior Engineer

Gemini is where innovation, speed to delivery, and big ideas are celebrated. We are builders who are inventing the future of finance via crypto and Web3 driven innovation. We are in the process of establishing our Gemini development center in Gurgaon (Gurugram), India with plans to begin recruitment by the end of April 2023. We are hiring software engineers and technical product managers in this location along with other key roles, including human resources and talent acquisition, finance, support, and compliance.

As a Senior Engineer, you’ll help solve complex problems that will directly influence the direction of the digital asset space. We are a team of self-starters, self-driven owners. There’s a wide range of problems to solve at Gemini – from properly securing millions of dollars worth of customer funds, to developing innovative new blockchain products, to shaving microseconds off our API response times. 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. If you get excited about solving technical challenges that directly impact our customers, clients, and the rest of the Gemini team, we’d love to hear from you.

There are 5-10 positions open under this role.

Responsibilities:

• Develop new products and product features on the Gemini platform, as part of a tight-knit team of six to eight developers.
• Own the DevOps lifecycle for a product; building, validating and maintaining high quality products through their lifetime.
• Provide technical input and knowledge to the planning, design, and requirements process for new products and features for both your immediate team and others.
• Author high quality code and review other software engineers’ code for correctness, >
• Improve the performance, maintainability, and operations of the Gemini codebase by engaging in occasional refactoring and upgrade projects.
• Experience working with high-performing teams of engineers on new problem areas for product development.
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills with the ability to work closely across sub teams and manage dependencies.
• Sound business judgment, with a proven ability to influence others and make excellent business and technical decisions.
• A customer-focused empathy and understanding of the challenges that developers face when using an application development platform, and a vision for how great products can help.
• Continually raise the bar of technical quality; championing best practices, identifying and presenting solutions to meta-development challenges, up-leveling peers and testing assumptions.

Minimum Qualifications:

• At least 8 years of software engineering experience.
• Building micro-services in the cloud (AWS, Azure etc) and building high-available services at scale.
• Advanced proficiency in at least one programming language like Java, Rust, C++, Scala. We use mostly Scala and C++ on our backend – it’s great if you’re comfortable in those or if you’re willing to learn.
• 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.
• Model curiosity and continual learning, embrace mistakes.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Work experience or knowledge of the finance industry, payments, trading and/or exchange systems.

It Pays to Work Here

The compensation & benefits package for this role includes:

• Competitive starting salary
• A discretionary annual bonus