Senior Software Engineer, Product Engagement (Backend)

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.

The Department: Product Engagement

The Role: Senior Software Engineer (Backend)

As a Senior Software Engineer at Gemini, you’ll be at the forefront of solving complex, high-impact challenges that shape the future of digital assets. You’ll work with a passionate, self-driven team that collaborates closely with our Trading Systems engineering team to build innovative, scalable trading products. This is a chance to directly influence the direction of an emerging industry by developing secure, highly available systems that serve millions of users.

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.

This role is required to be in person twice a week at either our Seattle, WA or New York City, NY office.

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable, high-performance backend services and APIs that power the Gemini platform.
• Architect and implement reliable, maintainable, and secure solutions, ensuring they meet business and technical requirements.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with product managers, designers, and frontend engineers to define, design, and deliver high-quality features.
• Write clean, efficient, and well-documented code, following best practices for maintainability, security, and performance.
• Conduct thorough code reviews, providing constructive feedback to ensure code correctness, style consistency, and adherence to security best practices.
• Optimize system performance and reliability, engaging in refactoring, database tuning, and infrastructure improvements as needed.
• Drive technical excellence, advocating for best practices in software architecture, testing, and observability.
• Stay up to date with emerging technologies and industry trends, identifying opportunities to enhance the Gemini backend stack.

Minimum Qualifications:

• At least 6 years of software engineering experience.
• A customer and product-focused mindset, with the ability to make well-reasoned tradeoffs between speed and quality.
• Expertise in backend development, with advanced proficiency in at least one programming language (we primarily use Scala and Go on the backend, but we're open to candidates willing to learn).
• Strong understanding of cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure, and experience with deploying and scaling applications in cloud environments.
• Ability to balance technical trade-offs between speed and quality while maintaining a strong focus on delivering business value.
• Proven ability to collaborate effectively across engineering, product, and design teams, and to communicate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Work experience or knowledge of the finance industry, payments, trading and/or exchange systems.
• Demonstrated expertise in full-stack product development.

• Competitive starting salary
• A discretionary annual bonus
• Long-term incentive in the form of a new hire equity grant
• Comprehensive health plans
• 401K with company matching
• Paid Parental Leave
• Flexible time off

Salary Range: The base salary range for this role is between $140,000 - $200,000 in the State of New York, the State of California and the State of Washington. This range is not inclusive of our discretionary bonus or equity package. When determining a candidate’s compensation, we consider a number of factors including skillset, experience, job scope, and current market data.

In the United States, we have a flexible hybrid work policy for employees who live within 30 miles of our office headquartered in New York City and our office in Seattle. Employees within the New York and Seattle metropolitan areas are expected to work from the designated office twice a week, unless there is a job-specific requirement to be in the office every workday. Employees outside of these areas are considered part of our remote-first workforce. We believe our hybrid approach for those near our NYC and Seattle offices increases productivity through more in-person collaboration where possible.

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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