Staff Software Engineer, Acquisition & Activation

About the Company

Gemini is a global crypto and Web3 platform founded by Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss in 2014, offering a wide range of simple, reliable, and secure crypto products and services to individuals and institutions in over 70 countries. Our mission is to unlock the next era of financial, creative, and personal freedom by providing trusted access to the decentralized future. We envision a world where crypto reshapes the global financial system, internet, and money to create greater choice, independence, and opportunity for all — bridging traditional finance with the emerging cryptoeconomy in a way that is more open, fair, and secure. As a publicly traded company, Gemini is poised to accelerate this vision with greater scale, reach, and impact.

The Department: Acquisition & Activation

The Role: Staff Software Engineer

As an engineer at Gemini, you’ll be directly involved in collecting, storing, and verifying the identity information of all users of Gemini. We are building a cross-functional, microservice based platform to support the login and registration processes across all of Gemini’s current and future product lines. We are a primarily backend team working in scala. 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.

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

Responsibilities:

• Lead the technical side of the planning, design, and requirements process for new products and features
• Review fellow software engineers’ code for correctness, style, and information security concerns. Provide constructive feedback, guidance, and mentorship to more junior team members
• Constantly look to improve the performance, maintainability, and operations of the Gemini codebase by via refactoring and upgrade projects
• Drive operational excellence by improving the instrumentation, monitoring, and alerting of your team’s production software
• Exhibit excellent verbal and written communications skills with the ability to work closely across teams, time zones, and dependencies
• Demonstrate sound business judgment, with a proven ability to influence others and make excellent business and technical decisions
• Always keep our end customer in mind when making any decision

Minimum Qualifications:

• At least 8 years of software engineering experience
• Advanced proficiency with the JVM (Scala preferred) 
• Familiarity with functional programming paradigms
• 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.
• A history of designing, building, and working with distributed systems
• Experience building highly observable, well monitored software

Preferred Qualifications:

• Familiarity with AWS cloud infrastructure 
• Experience working with event driven architectures and messaging protocols
• Prior experience working with gRPC and/or protobuf

• 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 $168,000 - $240,000 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 offer a hybrid work approach at our hub offices, balancing the benefits of in-person collaboration with the flexibility of remote work. Expectations may vary by location and role, so candidates are encouraged to connect with their recruiter to learn more about the specific policy for the role. Employees who do not live near one of our hubs are part of our remote workforce.

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.