Remote Software Engineer, Onchain - Gemini

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: Onchain

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 billions 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: Software Engineer

As an engineer in the Asset Transfer Team, you’ll be working as part of the core team of engineers responsible for designing, building, and supporting crypto wallets. The team supports everything related to accepting deposits, issuing withdrawals, and the secure storage of cryptocurrency on the platform.

Responsibilities:

• Improve feedback cycles at all levels of development (examples: improving the experience of iterating on code locally, deploying to test environments, deploying to production)
• Quickly ramp up on relevant industry and competitive trends
• Consistently deliver code that sets the standard for quality and maintainability
• Build secure contract protocols and backend services to connect Gemini users with the crypto ecosystem
• Systematically think through potential design impacts on other teams and the company
• Review other software engineers’ code for correctness, style, and information security concerns
• Improve the performance, maintainability, and operations of the Gemini code base by engaging in refactoring and upgrade projects

Qualifications:

• At least 3 years of software engineering experience
• Expertise in Scala or in a similar backend programming languages, such as Java or C#
• Identify and advocate for foundational work and practice improvements in their vertical
• Genuinely passionate about working with developers and improving their experience and velocity
• Technical aptitude around Blockchain Technology
• The ability to work closely across teams and manage dependencies
• A customer- and product-focused mindset, with the ability to make well-reasoned tradeoffs between speed and quality
• The ability to adapt and handle multiple competing priorities in collaboration with peers
• Can successfully plan and execute projects involving multiple developers and complex requirements, prioritizing strategically

It Pays to Work Here

The compensation & benefits package for this role includes:

• 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