Senior Software Engineer, Acquisition & Activation

<p><strong>About the Company</strong></p> <p class="p1">Gemini is a global crypto and Web3 platform founded by Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss in 2014, offering a wide range of simple, reliable, and secure crypto products and services to individuals and institutions in over 70 countries. Our mission is to unlock the next era of financial, creative, and personal freedom by providing trusted access to the decentralized future. We envision a world where crypto reshapes the global financial system, internet, and money to create greater choice, independence, and opportunity for all — bridging traditional finance with the emerging cryptoeconomy in a way that is more open, fair, and secure. As a publicly traded company, Gemini is poised to accelerate this vision with greater scale, reach, and impact.</p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>The Department: Acquisition &amp; Activation</strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>The Role:</strong> <strong>Senior Software Engineer</strong></span></p> <p>As an engineer at Gemini, you’ll be directly involved in collecting, storing, and verifying the identity information of all users of Gemini. We are building a cross-functional, microservice based platform to support the login and registration processes across all of Gemini’s current and future product lines. We are a primarily backend team working in scala. 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. We want to continue building the best product we can as we scale and grow our business. If you get excited about solving technical challenges that directly impact our customers, clients, and the rest of the Gemini team, we’d love to hear from you.</p> <p><em>This role is required to be in person twice a week at either our San Francisco, CA or New York City, NY office.</em></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Responsibilities:</strong></span></p> <ul> <li>Develop new products and product features on the Gemini platform, as part of a tight knit team of six to eight developers.</li> <li>Write automated tests to ensure the operation and correctness of new product features.</li> <li>Provide technical input and knowledge to the planning, design, and requirements process for new products and features.</li> <li>Review other software engineers’ code for correctness, style, and information security concerns.</li> <li>Improve the performance, maintainability, and operations of the Gemini codebase by engaging in occasional refactoring and upgrade projects.</li> <li>Support your team’s production software by responding to an occasional alert or bug report.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Minimum Qualifications:</strong></p> <ul> <li>At least 6 years of software engineering experience.</li> <li>Proficiency in with the JVM (Scala preferred).</li> <li>The ability to adapt and handle multiple competing priorities in collaboration with peers.</li> <li>A customer and product-focused mindset, with the ability to make well-reasoned tradeoffs between speed and quality.</li> <li>A proven track record of working with distributed systems.</li> <li>Familiarity writing highly observable, well monitored code.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Preferred Qualifications:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Familiarity with AWS cloud infrastructure.</li> <li>Interest in working with Functional Programming paradigms.</li> <li>Prior experience working with gRPC and/or protobuf.</li> </ul> <div class="p-rich_text_section"><strong data-stringify-type="bold">It Pays to Work Here</strong></div> <div class="p-rich_text_section">&nbsp;</div> <div class="p-rich_text_section">The compensation &amp; benefits package for this role includes:</div> <ul class="p-rich_text_list p-rich_text_list__bullet" data-stringify-type="unordered-list" data-indent="0" data-border="0"> <li data-stringify-indent="0" data-stringify-border="0">Competitive starting salary</li> <li data-stringify-indent="0" data-stringify-border="0">A discretionary annual bonus</li> <li data-stringify-indent="0" data-stringify-border="0">Long-term incentive in the form of a new hire equity grant</li> <li data-stringify-indent="0" data-stringify-border="0">Comprehensive health plans</li> <li data-stringify-indent="0" data-stringify-border="0">401K with company matching</li> <li data-stringify-indent="0" data-stringify-border="0">Paid Parental Leave</li> <li data-stringify-indent="0" data-stringify-border="0">Flexible time off</li> </ul> <p><strong>Salary Range</strong>: The base salary range for this role is between $140,000 - $200,000&nbsp;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.</p> <p class="p1"><em><span data-sheets-root="1">In the United States, we offer a hybrid work approach at our hub offices, balancing the benefits of in-person collaboration with the flexibility of remote work. Expectations may vary by location and role, so candidates are encouraged to connect with their recruiter to learn more about the specific policy for the role. Employees who do not live near one of our hubs are part of our remote workforce.</span></em></p> <p><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">At Gemini, we strive to build diverse teams that reflect the people we want to empower through our products, and we are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, or Veteran status. Equal Opportunity is the Law, and Gemini is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. If you have a specific need that requires accommodation, please let a member of the People Team know.</span></em></p> <p><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">#LI-AA1</span></em></p>