Data Engineer

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.

The Department: Data

The Role: Staff Data Engineer

You are considered a leader on our Data engineering team, dealing with ambiguous problems with limited guidance. Your solutions are developed with the team's long term goals and overall architecture in perspective. By driving data engineering best practices, you set standards, coach and mentor data engineers and Analysts, help them along their career goals at Gemini. Communicating your insights with leaders across the organization is paramount to success.

Responsibilities:

• Focused on technical decision making, leading work/projects that affects one or more complex systems and mission-critical areas
• Consistently delivers code that sets the standard for quality and maintainability.
• Writes highly insightful, comprehensive code reviews.
• Design, architect and implement best-in-class Data Warehousing and reporting solutions
• Lead and participate in design discussions and meetings
• Can successfully plan and execute projects involving multiple developers and complex requirements, prioritizing strategically
• Identifies, defines, and solves strategic problems, thinking holistically about the whole system.
• Mentor data engineers and analysts
• Design, automate, build, and launch scalable, efficient and reliable data pipelines into production using Python
• Build real-time data and reporting solutions
• Design, build and enhance dimensional models for Data Warehouse and BI solutions
• Research new tools and technologies to improve existing processes
• Develop new systems and tools to enable the teams to consume and understand data more intuitively
• Partner with engineers, project managers, and analysts to deliver insights to the business
• Perform root cause analysis and resolve production and data issues

Qualifications:

• 7+ years experience in data engineering with data warehouse technologies
• 7+ years experience in custom ETL design, implementation and maintenance
• 7+ years experience with schema design and dimensional data modeling
• Experience building real-time data solutions and processes
• Advanced skills with Python and SQL are a must
• Experience and expertise in Databricks, Spark, Hadoop etc.
• Experience with one or more MPP databases(Redshift, Bigquery, Snowflake, etc)
• Experience with one or more ETL tools(Informatica, Pentaho, SSIS, Alooma, etc)
• Strong computer science fundamentals including data structures and algorithms
• Strong software engineering skills in any server side language, preferable Python
• Experienced in working collaboratively across different teams and departments
• Strong technical and business communication skills

Preferred Qualifications:

• Kafka, HDFS, Hive, Cloud computing, machine learning, text analysis, NLP & Web development experience is a plus
• Deep knowledge of Apache Airflow
• Experience with Continuous integration and deployment
• Knowledge and experience of financial markets, banking or exchanges
• Web development skills with HTML, CSS, or JavaScript

It Pays to Work Here

The compensation & benefits package for this role includes:

• 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
• Annual Learning & Development stipend
• Paid Parental Leave
• Flexible time off

Salary Range: In compliance with the New York City Pay Transparency Law, the base salary range for this role is between  $152,000 - $213,000 in New York City. 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.

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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