Software Engineer

Summary

Join Gemini, a global crypto and Web3 platform, as a Software Engineer on our Credit Card team. You will architect and solve complex problems directly influencing the credit card industry, from ensuring secure transactions to developing innovative features and optimizing API response times. This role requires collaborating with various teams, ensuring high-quality code, and contributing to the development of best-in-class credit card products. The position demands strong software engineering skills, experience, and a customer-focused mindset. Gemini offers a competitive compensation and benefits package, including a discretionary annual bonus, equity grant, comprehensive health plans, 401k matching, paid parental leave, and flexible time off.

Requirements

• At least 2+ years of software engineering experience
• 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
• 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

Responsibilities

• Develop new products and product features on the Gemini platform
• Write automated tests and work with our QA team to ensure the operation and correctness of new product features
• Provide technical input and knowledge to the planning, design, and requirements process for new products and features
• 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 occasional refactoring and upgrade projects
• Support your team’s production software by responding to an occasional alert or bug report

Preferred Qualifications

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

Benefits

• 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
• 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