Staff Software Engineer - Trading Systems

November 24, 2024

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Gemini is a simple and secure platform designed to help users build their cryptocurrency portfolio. It provides a professional-level crypto trading platform called ActiveTrader, which caters to both experienced traders and beginners. Owned by Gemini, Nifty Gateway is a premier NFT marketplace focused on the buying, selling, and storing of digital art on the blockchain. Gemini is recognized for its industry-leading security and compliance standards, being ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type 2 certified, making it a licensed New York trust company subject to regular audits. Gemini also offers institutional products and services for businesses, private wealth, professional traders, and institutional investors, including exchange, custody, and staking services.

501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2014

₿ Crypto

💳 Fintech

🔐 Security

📋 Description

• Working 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. • 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. • 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 future state of our exchange and contribute towards improving the trading infrastructure. • Write robust code and APIs to support the company’s vital business. • Keep everyone informed about the health and viability of the platform by reporting known issues and status of ongoing investigations. • 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.

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years Java/C++ or functional programming language experience in an exchange/trading systems environment. • Experience with unit testing frameworks and continuous integration tools. • 8+ years working with order handling or matching engines. • 8+ years working with FIX or other market data/order protocols. • Experience in building real time Linux systems. • Solid understanding of IP multicast and TCP protocols. • Low latency/lock-free development and design. • Multithreading and concurrency experience. • Binary or custom protocols (e.g. ITCH/OUCH). • Linux kernel tuning and optimization. • Scala experience.

🏖️ Benefits

• 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