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: Trading Systems

The Role: Staff Software Engineer

As a Staff Software Engineer at Gemini, you’ll be at the forefront of solving complex, high-impact challenges that shape the future of digital assets. You’ll work with a passionate, self-driven team that collaborates closely with our Trading Systems engineering team to build innovative, scalable trading products. This is a chance to directly influence the direction of an emerging industry by developing secure, highly available systems that serve millions of users. If you're excited about tackling technical challenges that make a real difference to customers, clients, and our team, we want to hear from you.

Responsibilities:

• Lead complex technical projects: Guide the technical direction of initiatives across multiple teams and domains, ensuring scalable, high-quality solutions that align with business objectives.
• Mentor and develop engineers: Act as a technical mentor for less experienced engineers, fostering professional growth and encouraging continuous learning across the team.
• Influence engineering culture: Promote best practices for code quality, security, and system design. Drive improvements in processes and tools that increase the team’s overall effectiveness.
• Cross-functional collaboration: Work closely with product managers, designers, and other engineering leaders to ensure alignment on technical and product goals.
• Drive architecture decisions: Shape the long-term technical strategy by making high-impact architectural decisions that guide our platform's scalability and reliability.
• Advocate for operational excellence: Champion continuous improvements in performance, monitoring, and security, and ensure systems operate with a high degree of availability.
• Foster alignment across teams: Serve as a key point of contact to facilitate communication and collaboration across engineering, product, and business teams.

Minimum Qualifications:

• 8+ years of experience in software engineering, with a proven track record of designing and delivering high-quality, scalable systems.
• Expertise in backend development, with advanced proficiency in at least one programming language (we primarily use Scala and Go on the backend, but we're open to candidates willing to learn).
• Strong understanding of cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure, and experience with deploying and scaling applications in cloud environments.
• Demonstrated ability to lead complex, multi-team technical projects from concept to completion, with a focus on long-term impact and scalability.
• Experience in mentoring and coaching other engineers, fostering a culture of continuous learning and improvement.
• Ability to balance technical trade-offs between speed and quality while maintaining a strong focus on delivering business value.
• Proven ability to collaborate effectively across engineering, product, and design teams, and to communicate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Work experience or knowledge of the finance industry, payments, trading and/or exchange systems.
• Demonstrated expertise in full-stack product development.

It Pays to Work Here

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

• Comprehensive health plans covered at 100% for employees and dependents
• Long-term incentive in the form of a new hire equity grant
• Paid Parental Leave
• Competitive paid time off

In Singapore, we have a hybrid work policy. Employees are expected to work from the office part of the week. We believe our hybrid approach increases productivity through more in-person collaboration where possible.

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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