3 months ago
Base Salary
$193k - $275k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own the multi-year technical vision and architecture for the customer-facing platform, designing for scale and reliability.
- Review critical designs across organizations and lead architecture for the company’s hardest technical challenges.
- Own company initiatives spanning onboarding, compliance including KYC and identity, and customer support from ambiguity through long-term production operation.
- Define strategic technology and product direction and connect technical bets to company objectives.
- Plan and deliver complex cross-organizational programs with dependencies across teams and systems.
- Define engineering patterns, operational guidelines, and practices and extend process improvements across teams.
- Provide technical guidance and contribute to the most complex system problems while raising security, reliability, and quality standards.
- Mentor engineers and future leaders, delegate to grow others, and lead initiatives beyond the core area of expertise.
- Drive strategic engineering vision, healthy engineering culture, recruiting, and technical bar-raising.
Requirements
- 12+ years of software engineering experience building and operating complex production systems at scale.
- Recognized expertise in one or two technical domains with end-to-end accountability for company-level systems or initiatives.
- Experience driving architecture and design for difficult technical challenges across multiple teams or organizations.
- Ability to set technical vision with company-level impact and make increasingly strategic engineering decisions.
- Fluency across backend services plus web and/or mobile surfaces, with willingness to work deeply where needed.
- Proficiency in a typed language such as TypeScript, Scala, Java, or Go, plus comfort with JavaScript or TypeScript on web and mobile surfaces.
- Experience building consumer-facing applications with strong product and UX sensibility.
- Fluency with AI coding tools and automation, including a perspective on advancing agentic development practices.
- Track record of developing engineers and leaders, influencing prioritization, and leading cross-domain initiatives.
- Excellent communication skills and ability to build alignment across organizations.
- Preferred experience in crypto or fintech, onboarding, identity/KYC, compliance, customer support tooling, production AI agents or agentic workflows, React or React Native, cloud or microservices architecture, data-driven product strategy, experimentation, or external technical representation.
Benefits
- Comprehensive health plans, 401(k) with company matching, paid parental leave, flexible time off, annual bonus, and new-hire equity grant.
- Required to work in person twice per week at the New York City office; the role follows a hybrid work approach.
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About Gemini
Gemini is a regulated cryptocurrency exchange and custodian for individuals and institutions, generating revenue from trading, OTC, custody, and staking fees. Its platform spans spot and derivatives markets, wallets, and institutional services, and is available in 70+ countries. Founded by Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss and headquartered in New York, it is publicly traded on Nasdaq (GEMI).