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
