Senior Software Engineering Manager, Invest / Trade

About the Company

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.

The Department: Invest / Trade

The Role: Senior Manager, Software Engineering

As a Senior Engineering Manager, you will lead talented engineers to enhance and expand the features of our blockchain-based products and the supporting platforms. You
will drive the technical direction and engineering culture within your team and contribute to the culture of the broader Invest / Trading group. You will also help drive operational excellence in our systems and processes. You will work with the lead engineers and product managers to maintain an up to date roadmap and to ensure the roadmap is executed. You will mentor and coach your direct reports, ensuring continual engagement, growth, high performance, and job satisfaction. You will participate in solutioning for new features and products, helping to drive innovation to bring new value to users. Our goal is to design, develop, deploy, and support customer-facing and distributed systems that serve millions of customers, with a focus on safety, security, and customer experience. We believe in fixing what's broken, automating wherever possible, and constantly improving our processes.

This role is required to be in person twice a week at our New York City, NY office.

Responsibilities:

• Technical Leadership: Develop and maintain an engineering roadmap as well as co-developing the technical strategy that will continue to drive technical innovation and drive large scale business growth. 
• Program Management and Engineering Execution: Ensure that the product vision is realized through excellence in execution and operations. Work with Product teams and business leadership to efficiently deliver on business and product outcomes in a rapidly evolving industry, with a strong focus on maintaining the high level of availability and security for our users. 
• Recruiting and Team-Building: Lead the scaling of Gemini’s engineering teams through recruiting strategies that efficiently identify & attract the world’s top engineering talent; develop Gemini’s current talent by honing functional and qualitative skills. 
• Engineering Processes and Practices: Develop and maintain development methodologies which allow development teams to rapidly iterate and provide consistent quality at high velocity. Plan the development of highly automated build, test and deploy frameworks in collaboration with our infrastructure teams and other internal groups. 
• Technology Management: Lead, manage and mentor engineers. Manage staff goals, performance feedback, career development and opportunities for continuous learning.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 10+ years of experience in software development with languages such as: Java, C++ or Scala.
• 4+ years of experience managing teams of software engineers in a high precision, regulated industry.
• Proven track record of developing and maintaining large-scale, distributed systems.
• Experience with agile development methodologies and a commitment to following best practices in code health, testing, and maintainability.
• Excellent communication and teamwork abilities.
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to work under pressure.
• Familiarity with cloud technologies and microservices architecture.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in the crypto or fintech industry.
• Understanding of blockchain technologies and crypto wallets.

• Competitive starting pay
• 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