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.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, deploy, and support ledger and payments services that accurately record all crypto and fiat money movement across the platform.
- Build and evolve bank settlement and reconciliation pipelines that connect Gemini to external payment rails and banking partners.
- Apply sound engineering principles to identify correctness, consistency, and operational risks — and implement safeguards in software before they become incidents.
- Partner with finance, reconciliation, and treasury teams to understand real-world workflows and translate them into robust, auditable system behavior.
- Design scalable APIs and data models that support new transaction types, products, and regulatory requirements without increasing operational burden.
- Write well-tested, production-grade code that other critical systems depend on.
- Monitor and communicate the health of ledger and payment systems, proactively identify issues, and participate in incident response and remediation.
- Mentor teammates to ensure new functionality is correct, auditable, and production-ready.
- Participate in on-call rotations as needed.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience building backend systems in a production environment.
- Strong experience designing and operating distributed, stateful systems where data integrity is critical.
- Proficiency in at least one backend language — we primarily use Scala and Go, but are open to candidates willing to learn.
- Experience with unit testing, integration testing, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Familiarity with cloud-based infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
- Ability to reason about and debug complex system behavior across services and data stores.
- Strong communication skills and the ability to work effectively with cross-functional partners.
Conditions
- Competitive starting pay
- 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: $140,000 - $200,000 in the State of New York.