Staff Software Engineer

Summary

Join Gemini, a global crypto and Web3 platform, as a Staff Software Engineer in our Trading Systems department. You will work with a team of core trading systems developers to enhance and expand the functionality of our matching engine, order entry mechanisms, and market data publication. This role requires extensive experience in Java/C++, functional programming, and real-time systems development within an exchange/trading environment. You will design, develop, deploy, and support real-time systems, focusing on reliability, fault tolerance, and performance. We offer a competitive salary, bonus, equity grant, comprehensive health plans, 401k matching, paid parental leave, and flexible time off. We have a flexible hybrid work policy for employees within 30 miles of our NYC or Seattle offices.

Requirements

• 8+ years Java/C++ or functional programming language experience in an exchange/trading systems environment
• Experience with unit testing frameworks and continuous integration tools
• 8+ years working with order handling or matching engines
• 8+ years working with FIX or other market data/order protocols
• Experience in building real time Linux systems
• Solid understanding of IP multicast and TCP protocols

Responsibilities

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

Preferred Qualifications

• Low latency/lock-free development and design
• Multithreading and concurrency experience
• Binary or custom protocols (e.g. ITCH/OUCH)
• Linux kernel tuning and optimization
• Scala experience

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