Trading Systems Engineer - job 2 of 4

Empower the Individual Through Crypto

Gemini is a crypto exchange and custodian that allows customers to buy, sell, store, and earn more than 30 cryptocurrencies like bitcoin, bitcoin cash, ether, litecoin, and Zcash. Gemini is a New York trust company that is subject to the capital reserve requirements, cybersecurity requirements, and banking compliance standards set forth by the New York State Department of Financial Services and the New York Banking Law. Gemini was founded in 2014 by twin brothers Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss to empower the individual through crypto.

Crypto is about giving you greater choice, independence, and opportunity. We are here to help you on your journey. We build crypto products that are simple, elegant, and secure. Whether you are an individual or an institution, we want to help you buy, sell, and store your bitcoin and cryptocurrency. Crypto is not just a technology, it's a movement.

At Gemini, our mission is to empower the individual and that includes giving our employees flexibility of choice — our Office Optional Policy allows employees to choose to work from one of our physical locations or from home.

Select roles that are location-specific will still be eligible for flexible schedules.

The Department: Software Engineering 

Gemini is regulated and licensed like a bank, but it’s run like a tech startup, and engineering is the core of the company. There’s a wide range of tough problems to solve at Gemini – from properly securing hundreds of millions of dollars worth of customer funds, to developing innovative new blockchain products, to finding new techniques to combat fraud, to shaving microseconds off our API response times, and everything in between.

All of Gemini’s engineers are able to work across the software platform, not just on their own specialization or subteam. We value a thoughtful, collaborative software development process, coupled with a pragmatic approach to problem solving and delivering software.

The Role: Trading Systems Engineer

Work with our team of core trading systems developers to improve and expand the functionality of our matching engine, order entry mechanisms, and market data publication. We design, develop, deploy, and support real-time systems for our digital asset trading platform. Time is measured in microseconds and we aim to start measuring in nanoseconds. Reliability, fault tolerance, recoverability, throughput, and latency are what we look for in our systems. If something on the spaceship is broken we aim to fix it, if something can be automated we automate it, and we ship our code weekly.

Responsibilities:

Use engineering principles to identify and measure risk and to implement quantitative and technical risk management solutions in software

Understand business needs, facilitate and develop process workflows, data requirements, and specifications required to support implementation of our real time exchange

Develop scalable architecture for the current new version of our exchange as well as any future state while contributing towards improving the trading infrastructure

Write robust code and APIs to support the company’s vital business

Build systems to monitor the status and health of the trading platform.

Identify and advocate for changes vital to the stability and supportability of the system.

Mentor and advise teammates to ensure new features are efficient, highly available, and fault tolerant.

Provide continuity and stability to the production environment.

Provide quick response to production issues to help eliminate down time thereby ensuring high availability and performance of our trading platform.

Coordinate, prioritize and plan the changes to our trading software thereby ensuring smooth exchange migrations, quick time to market for new features and software.

Qualifications:

Significant experience developing exchange or trading systems with C++, Java or Scala

Delivers testable code using unit testing frameworks such as Googletest and JUnit

Experience working with order handling or matching engines

Experience working with FIX or other market data/order protocols

Experience building real-time Linux systems

In-depth understanding of networking protocols and some experience programming with low-level sockets APIs

Preferred Qualifications:

Multithreading and concurrency experience

Binary or custom protocols (e.g. ITCH/OUCH, SBE etc.)

Linux kernel tuning and optimization

Experience with margins/derivatives products

Experience with continuous integration tools like Jenkins

Experience working with multi-language build tools such as Bazel

Low latency/lock-free development and design

Experience supporting a low-latency, containerized production environment

Experience working with modern message brokers such as Apache Kafka or Apache Pulsar 

It Pays to Work Here

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

Competitive Compensation and Profit-Sharing Equity

Flexible vacation policy

Retirement Plan Matching

Generous Parental leave

Comprehensive health plans

Training and professional development

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 and affirmative action employer. If you have a specific need that requires accommodation, please let a member of the People Team know.