Software Engineering Manager, Tooling (Product)

Sierra Ventures; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 192,500 - 275,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive starting pay

Discretionary annual bonus

New hire equity grant

Comprehensive health plans

401K with company matching

Paid Parental Leave

Flexible time off

Job summary

Gemini is seeking a Manager, Software Engineering (Product) for its Toolsing department in New York City. You will lead engineers across backend, web, and mobile, shaping roadmaps and goals, guiding design, and growing career paths while championing AI-assisted development and scalable architectures.

You will be in person twice a week at the NYC office, with a hybrid approach across hub offices in the United States.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in software development and delivery.
• 3+ years managing engineering teams delivering high-quality software for customers.
• Technical enough to ask engineers good questions about architecture and product decisions.
• Experience with AI coding tools and automation in the development workflow.
• Expertise in full-stack systems built with Scala or Java (or similar) and React Native.
• Experience building consumer-facing applications with a product- and UX-focused mindset.
• Experience establishing successful partnerships with key stakeholders such as product managers, project managers, and business owners.

Responsibilities

• Create and evolve a structure and organization design for your team.
• Stay deeply involved in the team's system architecture — guiding new systems and integrations, and using prior design experience to identify pitfalls in scaling, performance, and availability across onboarding, compliance (KYC/identity), and customer support workflows serving millions of users.
• Raise the bar on engineering practices through high-quality code review feedback, design reviews, testing, and CI/CD, and help the team adopt and advance our AI coding tools and agentic development pipeline.
• Drive performance for your team and hold them accountable to internally and externally imposed deadlines and targets.
• Make hiring plans and hiring decisions.
• Give frequent feedback and coaching, coordinating with people around the company to get a full picture 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, across 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 analyze complex requirements and break initiatives into tasks.
• Own the team's output, taking responsibility for everyone's performance.
• Quickly ramp up on relevant industry and competitive trends.

Skills

Software development

Engineering management

System design

AI tooling

Scala/Java & React Native

Product UX mindset

Stakeholder collaboration

Tools

React Native

Job description

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: Tooling

The Role: Manager, Software Engineering (Product)

The Tooling team builds the customer-facing platform tooling that defines how millions of users experience Gemini — onboarding, compliance, customer support, and the ad hoc projects that keep the customer journey smooth from first touch onward. In this role, you'll lead a team of engineers working across backend, web, and mobile: helping them define roadmaps, plans, and goals, helping them achieve those goals, and guiding each team member to grow their career at Gemini. You'll involve yourself deeply in design and modernization, and use your experience building cloud systems at scale to guide the team toward robust, scalable, highly available systems that serve customers reliably.

We treat AI-assisted development and automation as first-class. Our team runs an agentic SDLC pipeline where specialized agents plan, implement, and review work through our harness with human guidance. We expect our engineers to wield these tools fluently — offloading toil while holding the decision gates that matter — and we expect our managers to help shape where that frontier goes.

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.
• Stay deeply involved in the team's system architecture — guiding new systems and integrations, and using prior design experience to identify pitfalls in scaling, performance, and availability across onboarding, compliance (KYC/identity), and customer support workflows serving millions of users.
• Raise the bar on engineering practices through high-quality code review feedback, design reviews, testing, and CI/CD, and help the team adopt and advance our AI coding tools and agentic development pipeline.
• Drive performance for your team and hold them accountable to internally and externally imposed deadlines and targets.
• Make hiring plans and hiring decisions.
• Give frequent feedback and coaching, coordinating with people around the company to get a full picture 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, across 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 analyze complex requirements and break initiatives into tasks.
• Own the team's output, taking responsibility for everyone's performance.
• Quickly ramp up on relevant industry and competitive trends.

Minimum Qualifications:

• You have 8+ years of experience in software development and delivery.
• You have 3+ years 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, including AI coding tools and automation in the development workflow.
• You have expertise in full-stack systems built with Scala or Java (or similar) and React Native.
• You have experience building consumer-facing applications with a product- and UX-focused mindset.
• You have experience establishing successful partnerships with key stakeholders such as product managers, project managers, and business owners.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in the crypto or fintech industry, or as a user of crypto products.
• Experience with onboarding, identity/KYC, compliance, or customer support tooling.
• Experience building or operating AI agents or agentic workflows in production.

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. 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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