Remote Staff Software Engineer

Summary

Join Gemini as Staff Software Engineer in the Funding organization, working on designing, building, and supporting crypto transfers and fiat payments. Improve feedback cycles, deliver high-quality code, and mentor less tenured engineers.

Requirements

• At least 8+ years of software engineering experience
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills
• Expertise in Scala or in a similar backend programming languages, such as Java or C#
• Genuinely passionate about working with developers and improving their experience and velocity
• 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
• Experience leading other engineers on complex projects thereby owning scoping and estimation exercises, project planning and milestone, risk management and reporting, stakeholder management and providing key input to prioritization

Responsibilities

• Improve feedback cycles at all levels of development
• Quickly ramp up on the existing architecture and product features
• Consistently deliver code that sets the standard for quality and maintainability
• 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
• Identify and advocate for foundational work and practice improvements in their vertical
• Expertise in removing manual touch points via automated testing
• Experience mentoring less tenured engineers and onboarding new team members

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