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Software Engineering Manager, Risk Engineering

New York, New York, United StatesHybridFull TimeManager / Head$192,500–$275,000 /yrPosted 2 months agoVisa sponsorship available

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Role summary

Gemini, a global crypto and Web3 platform, is seeking a Manager, Software Engineering for its Risk Engineering department. This role involves guiding software engineering teams in defining and achieving roadmaps, plans, and goals. The manager will be deeply involved in system architecture, modernization, and building scalable, highly available cloud systems. Key responsibilities include raising engineering practices, driving team performance, making hiring decisions, providing feedback and coaching, fostering an inclusive environment, and communicating effectively across all levels. The position requires a strong technical background with expertise in full-stack development (Scala/Java, React Native) and modern software engineering concepts, along with experience in system design and stakeholder management. This is a hybrid role requiring in-office presence twice a week in either San Francisco or New York City.

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: Risk Engineering

The Role: Manager, Software Engineering

Gemini has about one hundred software engineers spread across a dozen project teams. In this role, you’ll be responsible for helping these teams define their roadmaps, plans, and goals, helping them achieve those goals, and guiding each team member to develop their career at Gemini. Deeply involve yourself in the design and modernization process, and use your existing experience of building cloud systems at scale to guide the team to build robust, scalable and highly available systems.

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

Responsibilities:

  • Create and evolve a structure and organization design for your team.
  • Deeply involved with system architecture of the team, guiding the team through new systems being built, or integrating into existing systems. Using prior design experience to identify pitfalls in scaling, performance, availability and helping the team navigate it.
  • Help raise the bar on engineering practices through high quality code review feedback, design reviews, testing, and CICD practices.
  • Drive performance for your team and hold them accountable to externally and internally imposed deadlines and targets.
  • Make hiring plans and hiring decisions.
  • Give frequent feedback and coaching to your team members, coordinating with people from around the company to get a full understanding of your team’s performance.
  • Provide a diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment for your team to execute on its priorities and evolve its capabilities over time.
  • Communicate at all levels from senior leaders to individual contributors, including technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Adapt the team’s plans and goals to changing realities in a fast-moving industry.
  • Effectively resolve ambiguity, helping the team to analyze complex requirements and break down features and initiatives into tasks.
  • Own the team’s output, taking responsibility for everyone’s performance.
  • Quickly ramp up on relevant industry and competitive trends.
  • Qualifications:

  • You have 8+ years of experience in software development & delivery.
  • You have 3+ years of managing engineering teams, delivering high quality software for customers.
  • You're technical enough to ask engineers good questions about architecture and product decisions.
  • You have experience with modern software engineering concepts.
  • You have expertise in full stack systems built with Scala or Java (or similar) and React Native.
  • You have experience establishing successful partnerships with key stakeholders such as product managers, project managers, and business owners.
  • It Pays to Work Here
    The compensation & benefits package for this role includes:
  • 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
  • Salary Range: The base salary range for this role is between $192,500 - $275,000 in the State of New York, the State of California and the State of Washington. This range is not inclusive of our discretionary bonus or equity package. When determining a candidate’s compensation, we consider a number of factors including skillset, experience, job scope, and current market data.

    In the United States, we offer a hybrid work approach at our hub offices, balancing the benefits of in-person collaboration with the flexibility of remote work. Expectations may vary by location and role, so candidates are encouraged to connect with their recruiter to learn more about the specific policy for the role. Employees who do not live near one of our hubs are part of our remote workforce.

    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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    Sample Gemini interview questions

    • 1

      Build a service for log management across distributed systems.

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    • 2

      Perform a vertical order traversal of a binary tree. Input: root = [1,2,3,4,5,6,7] Output: [[4],[2],[1,5,6],[3],[7]] Explanation: Traverses the tree maintaining column indices, seamlessly grouping nodes that share the exact same vertical alignment.

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    • 3

      Palindromes in Base-10 and Base-k Return the first n integers that are palindromes in both base-10 and base-k. Input: n = 2, k = 4 Output: [1, 5] Explanation: 1 is '1' in base 4, and 5 is '11' in base 4. Both are perfect palindromes in decimal and base 4 simultaneously.

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    • 4

      Valid Word Abbreviation Determine if a string matches a valid word abbreviation. Input: word = "apple", abbr = "a2e" Output: FALSE Explanation: The abbreviation claims exactly 2 characters are skipped between 'a' and 'e', but "ppl" is actually 3 characters long.

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    • 5

      Alien Dictionary Order Derive the alien dictionary order from a sorted list of alien words. Input: words = ["z","x","z"] Output: "" (Empty String) Explanation: The letter 'z' cannot come before 'x' and then suddenly after 'x', creating a cycle and making the dictionary invalid.

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