Senior Software Engineer, Gemini
Funding
$140-200k
+ Discretionary annual bonus & new hire equity grant
2 days a week in office
Cryptocurrency exchange platform
Open for applications
Cryptocurrency exchange platform
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$140-200k
+ Discretionary annual bonus & new hire equity grant
2 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To unlock the next era of financial, creative and personal freedom
Role
Who you are
- 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
Desirable
- 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
What the job involves
- 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
- 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
Our take
Gemini is a cryptocurrency exchange platform that's known for offering excellent security as well as being available across the US, including New York - a state not often covered by crypto exchanges.
As a trading platform, Gemini is one of many, but a dedication to innovation and a commitment to working within FCA regulations are what make it stand out from the crowd. After acquiring Blockrize in 2021, the company launched a credit card for US customers that enables them to earn a small percentage of spending back in bitcoin rewards. It also launched the Gemini dollar, a 1:1 USD-backed stablecoin, that combines the price stability of the US dollar with the technological advantages of a cryptocurrency.
The crypto exchange market is crowded with exchange platforms, and Gemini's competitors include giants like Coinbase. However, by operating within regulations and maintaining its status as a registered digital asset service provider in Europe (with plans to expand further in the region very soon), Gemini is in a strong position to face the continued crackdown on unauthorized activity in this market and make a space for itself in the DeFi future.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-13% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (1 round)
Nov 2021
$400m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Total funding: $400m
Company benefits
- Flexible vacation policy
- Retirement plan matching
- Generous parental leave
- Comprehensive health plans
- Training and development
- Health and wellness perks
- Community events
Company HQ
New York, NY
Leadership
Tyler Winklevoss
(Co-Founder & CEO)Principal at Winklevoss Capital. Studied Economics at Harvard. Notorious for their role in the founding of Facebook, they co-founded Gemini with brother Cameron in 2014.
Cameron Winklevoss
(Co-Founder & President)Principal at Winklevoss Capital. Studied Economics at Harvard. Notorious for their role in the founding of Facebook, they co-founded Gemini with brother Tyler in 2014.
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