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.

Select roles that are location-specific will still be eligible for flexible schedules.

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, Identity

Gemini’s Identity team is responsible for: 1) managing end user identity information throughout the Gemini ecosystem 2) verifying the identity information of end users, to enable them to perform actions concerning their financial assets, in a frictionless manner. In order to achieve this, the team owns systems related to the collection, storage, verification, and distribution of end user identity information. We are an internal service team, meaning we aim to provide these capabilities to other Gemini product engineering teams.

Staff Software Engineers set the technical direction for the team, in the service of achieving the aforementioned goals.

Responsibilities:

• Mentoring junior engineers on the team by teaching and modeling best practices 
• Being a force multiplier by not only contributing great code, but also creating reusable building blocks for the team
• Leading design ideation sessions to ensure we are building scalable, maintainable, and durable systems
• Reviewing code written by other engineers and maintaining a high bar for the quality of what we deliver
• Driving observability practices to increase our abilities to debug, monitor, and alert 
• Embracing modern DevOps practices as we move to more containerized applications that are continuously deployed

Minimum Qualifications:

• 6+ years of experience working in Software Engineering roles
• Advanced proficiency in at least one programming language (vs a breadth of shallow knowledge)
• Proven track record in developing distributed systems
• Passion for learning and evangelizing best engineering practices
• Strong communication skills, including the ability to write and advocate for improved architectures, system enhancements, and potential new features
• Obsessed with delivering the best customer experience, whether they are internal or external

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Advanced proficiency in at least one JVM-based programming language (Scala, Java, Kotlin)
• Exposure to containerized applications and an understanding of modern DevOps frameworks
• Experience architecting distributed microservices from the ground up
• Familiarity with functional programming standards

It Pays to Work Here

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

• Competitive Compensation and Profit-Sharing Equity
• Flexible vacation policy
• Retirement Plan Matching
• Generous Parental leave
• Comprehensive health plans
• Training and professional development

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 and affirmative action employer. If you have a specific need that requires accommodation, please let a member of the People Team know.

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