Senior Software Engineer, Money

About Gemini

Money team and role

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, deploy, and support ledger and payments services recording crypto and fiat money movement.
• Build and evolve settlement and reconciliation pipelines connecting to payment rails and banking partners.
• Identify correctness, consistency, and operational risks and implement safeguards.
• Work with finance, reconciliation, and treasury teams to create robust, auditable system behavior.
• Design scalable APIs and data models for new transaction types, products, and regulatory requirements.
• Write production-grade, well-tested code; monitor system health; identify issues; and support incident response and remediation.
• Mentor teammates and participate in on-call rotations as needed.

Minimum qualifications

• At least 5 years building backend systems in production.
• Strong experience designing and operating distributed, stateful systems where data integrity is critical.
• Proficiency in at least one backend language; Scala and Go are used, and candidates may learn them.
• Experience with unit testing, integration testing, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Ability to reason about and debug complex behavior across services and data stores.
• Strong communication skills and ability to work effectively with cross-functional partners.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience with ledger systems, accounting platforms, payments infrastructure, or financial transaction processing.
• Familiarity with double-entry bookkeeping, reconciliation, audit requirements, or regulatory reporting.
• Experience integrating external payment rails or banking partners, including ACH, wire, or card networks.
• Familiarity with Temporal, Cadence, or similar workflow orchestration systems, or a fintech or financial-services background.

Compensation

• The base salary range is $140,000–$200,000 in New York; the range excludes discretionary bonus and equity.
• The package includes a discretionary annual bonus and a new-hire equity grant.

Benefits

• Benefits include health plans, 401(k) matching, paid parental leave, and flexible time off.

Workplace

• Gemini describes a hybrid approach at U.S. hub offices, balancing in-person collaboration with remote flexibility; expectations vary by location and role.
• Employees outside hub locations are part of the remote workforce; all employees must onboard in person at an office location.