Staff Software Engineer, Consumer Experience (Backend)

Gemini (View all Jobs)

Gurgaon, India

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Interview Process

1. Phone chat 2. Take-home project 3. Discussion on-site. Questions on prior experiences and culture fit

Programming Languages Mentioned

Java, C++


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.

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 help you buy, sell, and store your bitcoin and cryptocurrency. 

At Gemini, our mission is to unlock the next era of financial, creative, and personal freedom.

In India, we have a hybrid work policy. Employees are expected to work from the office in Gurgaon part of the week. We believe our hybrid approach increases productivity through more in-person collaboration where possible. 

The Department: Consumer Experience

The Role: Staff Software Engineer (Backend)

As a Staff Software 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.

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, style, and information security concerns.
  • 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 microservices in the cloud (AWS / GCP / 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 base salary
  • Benefits
  • Discretionary annual bonus

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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