Summary

As an engineer on our team, you’ll architect and solve complex problems that will directly influence the direction of the credit card space. There's a wide range of challenges to tackle – from ensuring the secure handling of millions of dollars worth of customer transactions, to developing innovative new credit card features, to optimizing our API response times to enhance the customer experience. 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. As we scale and grow our business, we are committed to building the best credit card products in the industry. If you get excited about solving technical challenges that directly impact our customers, and the rest of the Gemini team, we’d love to hear from you.

Responsibilities:

1. Use engineering principles to identify and measure risk and to implement quantitative and technical risk management solutions in software.
2. Understand business needs, facilitate and develop process workflows, data requirements, and specifications required to support implementation of our real time exchange.
3. Develop scalable architecture for the future state of our exchange and contribute towards improving the trading infrastructure.
4. Write robust code and APIs to support the company’s vital business.
5. Keep everyone informed about the health and viability of the platform by reporting known issues and status of ongoing investigations.
6. Identify and advocate for changes vital to the stability and supportability of the system.
7. Mentor and advise teammates to ensure new features are efficient, highly available, and fault tolerant.
8. Provide continuity and stability to the production environment.
9. Provide quick response to production issues to help eliminate down time thereby ensuring high availability and performance of our trading platform.
10. Coordinate, prioritize and plan the changes to our trading software thereby ensuring smooth exchange migrations, quick time to market for new features and software.

Minimum Qualifications:

1. At least 5 years of software engineering experience.
2. Advanced proficiency in at least one language. We use mostly Scala and C++ on our backend and Typescript on the frontend – it’s great if you’re comfortable in those or if you’re willing to learn.
3. The ability to work closely across teams and manage dependencies.
4. A customer and product-focused mindset, with the ability to make well-reasoned tradeoffs between speed and quality.
5. The ability to adapt and handle multiple competing priorities in collaboration with peers.

Preferred Qualifications:

1. Experience working with or being a power user of Bitcoin, Ethereum, and/or blockchain technology.
2. Work experience or knowledge of the finance industry, payments, trading and/or exchange systems.

Salary Range:

The base salary range for this role is between $152,000 - $190,000 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.

Skills

• C++
• Development
• Software Engineering
• Team Collaboration
• TypeScript