Senior Software Engineer, Funding

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: Funding

The Role: Senior Software Engineer

As an engineer in the Funding organization, you’ll be working as part of the core team of engineers responsible for designing, building, and supporting crypto transfers and fiat payments. The team’s support everything related to deposit and withdrawal of crypto assets and fiat assets on the platform.

This role is required to be in person twice a week at either our San Francisco, Ca or New York City, NY office.

Responsibilities:

• Improve feedback cycles at all levels of development (examples: improving the experience of iterating on code locally, deploying to test environments, deploying to production).
• Quickly ramp up on the existing architecture and product features.
• Consistently deliver code that sets the standard for quality and maintainability.
• Systematically think through potential design impacts on other teams and the company
• Review other software engineers’ code for correctness, style, and information security concerns.
• Improve the performance, maintainability, and operations of the Gemini code base by engaging in refactoring and upgrade projects.
• Identify and advocate for foundational work and practice improvements in their vertical.
• Expertise in removing manual touch points via automated testing.
• Experience mentoring less tenured engineers and onboarding new team members.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s (or foreign equivalent) in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field and 5 years of progressive post-baccalaureate software development experience, or Master’s (or foreign equivalent) and 3 years of related experience.
• 2+ years of experience designing, building, and operating production backend services or microservices, including development of well-tested APIs (REST and/or gRPC) and strong understanding of system design fundamentals.
• 3+ years of proficiency in at least one modern backend language (Java, Kotlin, Go, Scala, or Python) and demonstrated ability to produce maintainable, testable, and high-quality code.
• 2+ years of experience with relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL) and at least one of NoSQL stores or event/queue systems (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ, or equivalent).
• 2+ years of experience deploying and operating services on a major cloud platform (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and with CI/CD pipelines, containerization (Docker), orchestration (Kubernetes), and monitoring/observability tools.
• Experience participating in code reviews, peer mentorship, and cross-functional work with Product, Compliance, or Risk teams.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience developing high-availability, high-throughput transactional or financial systems with emphasis on data integrity, idempotency, and fault tolerance.
• Experience integrating with ACH/NACHA, wire transfers (Fedwire/SWIFT/ISO 20022), RTP, card processors/networks, or payout providers, and familiarity with reconciliation and ledgering workflows.
• Knowledge of PCI DSS, SOC 2, or other regulatory standards, and experience collaborating with KYC/AML or fraud/risk teams.
• Experience designing and implementing streaming or asynchronous processing systems (e.g., Kafka) with exactly-once or effectively-once semantics.
• Experience operating SLO-driven services, including use of rate limiting, circuit breaking, and backpressure techniques, and participating in incident response/on-call rotations.
• Experience with crypto or fintech systems, including exchanges, wallets/custody solutions, blockchain transaction lifecycles, or fiat–crypto on/off-ramps.
• Experience leading projects or mentoring engineers, contributing to architecture decisions, dependency management, and promoting engineering best practices across teams.

• 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

Salary Range: The base salary range for this role is between $140,000 - $200,000 in the State of New York, the State of California and the State of Washington. 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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