Software Engineering Manager, Risk Engineering

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 either our San Francisco, CA or 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.