Gemini is hiring a Staff Software Engineer for our Acquisition & Activation team. You will lead the technical side of planning, design, and requirements for new products and features, building and maintaining a cross-functional, microservice-based platform that supports login and registration across all Gemini product lines.
What You'll Do
- Lead the technical side of the planning, design, and requirements process for new products and features.
- Review fellow software engineers’ code for correctness, style, and information security concerns.
- Provide constructive feedback, guidance, and mentorship to more junior team members.
- Constantly look to improve the performance, maintainability, and operations of the Gemini codebase via refactoring and upgrade projects.
- Drive operational excellence by improving the instrumentation, monitoring, and alerting of your team’s production software.
- Exhibit excellent verbal and written communications skills with the ability to work closely across teams, time zones, and dependencies.
- Demonstrate sound business judgment, with a proven ability to influence others and make excellent business and technical decisions.
- Always keep our end customer in mind when making any decision.
What We're Looking For
- At least 8 years of software engineering experience.
- Advanced proficiency with the JVM (Scala preferred).
- Familiarity with functional programming paradigms.
- The ability to adapt and handle multiple competing priorities in collaboration with peers.
- A customer and product-focused mindset, with the ability to make well-reasoned tradeoffs between speed and quality.
- Demonstrated ability to lead the design and development of complex, innovative software solutions.
- A history of designing, building, and working with distributed systems.
- Experience building highly observable, well monitored software.
Nice to Have
- Familiarity with AWS cloud infrastructure.
- Experience working with event driven architectures and messaging protocols.
- Prior experience working with gRPC and/or protobuf.
Technical Stack
- Scala
- JVM
- AWS
- gRPC
- protobuf
Team & Environment
You will be part of a cross-functional team.
Benefits & Compensation
- 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
- Compensation range: $168,000 - $240,000 + equity (new hire equity grant)
Work Mode
This role operates on a hybrid work model and is open to candidates in New York, New York or San Francisco, California.
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.
