Crypto payment gateway with compliance-first infrastructure
CoinGate processes cryptocurrency payments for businesses, handling both merchant payouts and customer checkout flows across Bitcoin, stablecoins, and altcoins. The stack reveals a compliance-heavy operation: Chainalysis integration, Kafka-backed transaction monitoring, and dbt-modeled data pipelines alongside typical fintech infrastructure (Rails, Go, Kubernetes). Active hiring across security, legal, and risk—paired with projects centered on financial-crime detection, alerting optimization, and transaction frameworks—signals a company scaling through regulatory pressure rather than pure user growth.
CoinGate is a payment gateway enabling merchants to accept cryptocurrency payments and settle in crypto or fiat currency at a flat 1% fee. Founded in 2014 in Lithuania, the company serves SMBs and enterprises with API integrations, e-commerce plugins, and hosted payment buttons. The operation spans 51–200 employees across engineering, compliance, legal, security, and sales functions, headquartered in Vilnius. Revenue and customer counts are not public.
Core backend: Ruby on Rails, Go. Frontend: Next.js, Tailwind. Infrastructure: AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, Terraform, ArgoCD, Docker. Data: PostgreSQL, MySQL, Kafka, dbt, Elasticsearch, Grafana, Prometheus. Risk/compliance: Chainalysis. Automation: n8n. Sales: HubSpot.
Risk-based controls, transaction monitoring frameworks, financial-crime detection, sales playbook development, and AI-assisted analytics. Projects focus on alerting optimization, scalable SQL/dbt data models, and Looker Studio dashboards.
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