Senior Software Engineer, Funding

About This Role

As a Senior Software Engineer in Funding, you will design, build, and support crypto transfers and fiat payments for a global crypto and Web3 platform. This role involves improving development feedback cycles, delivering high-quality code, and mentoring junior engineers.

Responsibilities

• Improve feedback cycles at all levels of development (e.g., iterating on code locally, deploying to test and production environments).
• Quickly ramp up on 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 codebase through refactoring and upgrade projects.
• Identify and advocate for foundational work and practice improvements in their vertical.
• Remove manual touch points via automated testing.
• Mentor less tenured engineers and onboard new team members.

Requirements

• 5 years of progressive post-baccalaureate software development experience (or 3 years with Master's)
• 2+ years experience designing, building, and operating production backend services or microservices
• Proficiency in at least one modern backend language (Java, Kotlin, Go, Scala, or Python)
• Strong understanding of system design fundamentals
• 2+ years experience with relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL)
• 2+ years experience with NoSQL stores or event/queue systems (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ)
• 2+ years experience deploying and operating services on a major cloud platform (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, containerization (Docker), orchestration (Kubernetes)
• Experience with monitoring/observability tools
• Experience participating in code reviews, peer mentorship, and cross-functional work

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s (or foreign equivalent) in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field
• 5 years of progressive post-baccalaureate software development experience (for Bachelor's) or 3 years of related experience (for Master's). 2+ years designing, building, and operating production backend services or microservices.

Nice to Have

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

Skills

* Required skills

Benefits