Staff Software Engineer

Gemini SingaporePosted 3 hours ago Permanent Competitive

**Empower the Individual Through Crypto**
- 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 want to help you buy, sell, and store your bitcoin and cryptocurrency. Crypto is not just a technology, it's a movement.
- At Gemini, our mission is to
- **empower the individual** and that includes giving our employees flexibility of choice - our Office Optional Policy allows employees to choose to work from one of our physical locations or from home.**The Department**:Marketplace
- This team's mission is to ensure Gemini is a premier trading platform for digital assets for consumers and institutions. This team owns all aspects of spot and derivative trading, ActiveTrader offering geared towards intermediate to advanced cryptocurrency traders and Exchange APIs as well as Portfolio/Wealth Management (Bitria).**The Role**:Staff Software Engineer
- As an engineer on the team, you'll architect and solve complex problems that will directly influence the direction of the digital asset space. There's a wide range of problems to solve at Gemini - from properly securing millions of dollars worth of customer funds, to developing innovative new blockchain products, to shaving microseconds off our API response times. 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.**Responsibilities**:

- Develop new products and product features on the Gemini platform, as part of a tight knit team of two to eight developers.
- 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.
- Design, develop and test operating systems level software.
- Oversee general functionality of the risk systems and the utilization or development of new monitoring tools for tracking and reporting performance.
- Identify, coordinate and manage resolution efforts on processing usage issues.
- Own technical issues through resolution and implement solutions and recommendations based on business needs.
- Plan and coordinate project implementation support efforts and estimate work efforts and schedule for supporting project development and deployment.

**Qualifications**:

- At least 8 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.

**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.

**It Pays to Work Here**

We take a holistic approach to compensation at Gemini, which includes:

- Health, Vision and Dental insurance covered at 100% for employees and dependents
- At least 12 weeks paid Parental Leave
- Flexible Time Off
- Business Travel Medical Insurance

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.
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