Summary

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:

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

Minimum Qualifications:

1. 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. 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. 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.
4. 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).
5. 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.
6. Experience participating in code reviews, peer mentorship, and cross-functional work with Product, Compliance, or Risk teams.

Preferred Qualifications:

1. Experience developing high-availability, high-throughput transactional or financial systems with emphasis on data integrity, idempotency, and fault tolerance.
2. 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.
3. Knowledge of PCI DSS, SOC 2, or other regulatory standards, and experience collaborating with KYC/AML or fraud/risk teams.
4. Experience designing and implementing streaming or asynchronous processing systems (e.g., Kafka) with exactly-once or effectively-once semantics.
5. Experience operating SLO-driven services, including use of rate limiting, circuit breaking, and backpressure techniques, and participating in incident response/on-call rotations.
6. Experience with crypto or fintech systems, including exchanges, wallets/custody solutions, blockchain transaction lifecycles, or fiat–crypto on/off-ramps.
7. Experience leading projects or mentoring engineers, contributing to architecture decisions, dependency management, and promoting engineering best practices across teams.

It Pays to Work Here

The compensation & benefits package for this role includes:

1. Competitive starting salary
2. A discretionary annual bonus
3. Long-term incentive in the form of a new hire equity grant
4. Comprehensive health plans
5. 401K with company matching
6. Paid Parental Leave
7. 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.

Skills

• Communications Skills
• Database Management
• Development
• Java
• Python
• Software Architecture
• Software Engineering
• SQL
• Team Collaboration