Manager, Software Engineering

About Nifty Gateway

Nifty Gateway is the premiere, all-in-one platform that makes it easy to buy, sell, and store digital art and collectibles, otherwise known as Nifties (or NFTs). Nifty Gateway was founded by Duncan and Griffin Cock Foster in 2018, and acquired by Gemini in 2019, with the belief that crypto networks and the blockchain have the power to fundamentally change the art world by creating greater choice, independence, and opportunity for artists, creators, and collectors.

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 Role: Engineering Manager

We are seeking an engineering manager for the Payments dev team at Nifty Gateway. The Payments team handles everything relating to how money moves around the Nifty Gateway platform – buying NFTs, selling NFTs, royalties for artists & collaborators, and handling cryptocurrency, crypto wallets, credit cards, banks, and exchanges. In this role, you’ll be responsible for helping the fullstack Payments team define their roadmap, plans, and goals, helping them achieve those goals, and guiding each team member to develop their career at Nifty Gateway. Your team will be building out the frontier of an emerging field and tools for some of the world’s best digital art!

Responsibilities:

• Create and evolve a structure and organization design for your team
• 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:

• 5+ years of experience in software development & delivery
• 3+ years of managing engineering teams, delivering high quality software for customers
• Technical aptitude to ask engineers good questions about architecture and product decisions
• Expertise in Python or similar programming language and Javascript/Typescript
• Familiarity with the Djangoframework, PostgreSQL, and ReactJS.
• Experience establishing successful partnerships with key stakeholders such as product managers, project managers, and business owners.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience working with Solidity & Web3.py, among other tools.
• Basic understanding of blockchain technology, including the Ethereum blockchain and smart contracts
• Familiarity and interest with nifties and digital collectibles as a product.
• Knowledge of NFTs and Ethereum protocols is also hugely helpful

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