Staff Software Engineer

Empower the Individual Through Crypto

Gemini is a crypto exchange and custodian that allows customers to buy, sell, store, and earn more than 30 cryptocurrencies like bitcoin, bitcoin cash, ether, litecoin, and Zcash. Gemini is a New York trust company that is subject to the capital reserve requirements, cybersecurity requirements, and banking compliance standards set forth by the New York State Department of Financial Services and the New York Banking Law. Gemini was founded in 2014 by twin brothers Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss to empower the individual through crypto.

Crypto is about giving you greater choice, independence, and opportunity. We are here to help you on your journey. We build crypto products that are simple, elegant, and secure. Whether you are an individual or an institution, we want to help you buy, sell, and store your bitcoin and cryptocurrency. Crypto is not just a technology, it's a movement.

At Gemini, our mission is to empower the individual and that includes giving our employees flexibility of choice — our Office Optional Policy allows employees to choose to work from one of our physical locations or from home.

The Department: Software Engineering

Gemini is regulated and licensed like a bank, but it’s run like a tech startup, and engineering is the core of the company.  There’s a wide range of tough problems to solve at Gemini – from properly securing hundreds of millions of dollars worth of customer funds, to developing innovative new blockchain products, to finding new techniques to combat fraud, to shaving microseconds off our API response times, and everything in between.

All of Gemini’s engineers are able to work across the software platform, not just on their own specialization or subteam. We value a thoughtful, collaborative software development process, coupled with a pragmatic approach to problem solving and delivering software.

The Role: Staff Software Engineer

As an engineer on our backend team, you’ll architect and solve complex problems that will directly influence the direction of the digital asset space. 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. 

Responsibilities:

• Develop new products and product features on the Gemini platform, as part of a tight knit team of two to eight developers.
• Write automated tests and work with our QA team to ensure the operation and correctness of new product features.
• 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.
• Design, develop and test operating systems level software.
• Oversee general functionality of the risk systems and the utilization or development of new monitoring tools for tracking and reporting performance.
• Identify, coordinate and manage resolution efforts on processing usage issues.
• Own technical issues through resolution and implement solutions and recommendations based on business needs.
• Plan and coordinate project implementation support efforts and estimate work efforts and schedule for supporting project development and deployment.

Minimum Qualifications:

• At least 8 years of software engineering experience
• Advanced proficiency in C++ (ideally version 20)
• Multithreading and concurrency experience using C++
• Linux kernel tuning and optimization
• Experience working with US teams
• AWS cloud experience - running, supporting, and managing large scale distributed systems in the cloud

Preferred Qualifications:

• 3+ years working with order handling or matching engines
• 3+ years working with FIX or other market data/order protocols
• Binary or custom protocols (e.g. ITCH/OUCH)
• Proficiency in Scala
• Experience working with or being a power user of Bitcoin, Ethereum, and/or blockchain technology
• Work experience or knowledge of the finance industry, payments, trading and/or exchange systems

It Pays to Work Here

We take a holistic approach to compensation at Gemini, which includes:

• Health, Vision and Dental insurance covered at 100% for employees and dependents
• At least 12 weeks paid Parental Leave
• Flexible Time Off
• Business Travel Medical Insurance

At Gemini, we strive to build diverse teams that reflect the people we want to empower through our products, and we are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, or Veteran status. Equal Opportunity is the Law, and Gemini is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. If you have a specific need that requires accommodation, please let a member of the People Team know.

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