Backend Engineer (Java), All Levels - NYC

Posted 6 Days Ago
New York, NY
120K-250K Annually
Senior level
Gaming • Mobile • Software
The Role
As a Senior Backend Engineer at Medal, you'll develop REST APIs supporting real-time communication and manage large volumes of user-generated content. You'll work on scalable infrastructure using Java, relational databases, and cloud technologies to optimize performance and enhance user experience.
Summary Generated by Built In

Medal enables millions of gamers to capture and share their best gaming moments and create memories together. Medal users create 3M+ videos per day across over a million daily active users on our desktop and mobile applications. Your work will have a real impact on millions of people around the world!


Medal's backend team is responsible for creating REST APIs that power our whole application, supporting real-time in-app communications, storing billions of user-generated gaming clips, powering Medal's ML-based content feed and friend recommendations, and much more.

Essential Experience

  • Experience with Java (level-dependent, from foundational to expert proficiency)
  • Experience as a backend engineer on a production application (from entry-level contributions to leading projects)
  • Understanding of RESTful APIs and experience architecting and implementing them in a production environment at scale
  • Proficiency with relational databases such as MySQL and PostgreSQL, with an understanding of schema design, indexing, relations, and performance optimizations
  • Comfortable working on systems handling thousands of requests per second
  • Experience managing cloud infrastructure
  • Designing scalable infrastructure and architectures
  • Understanding of CI/CD, TDD, and version control (Git)

Bonus Experience

  • Dependency injection
  • Experience with infrastructure management and "infrastructure as code" (Terraform, Salt, Chef, or similar)
  • Experience with caches such as Redis or Memcached
  • Experience with using queues to offload work
  • ElasticSearch, BigQuery
  • Python, NodeJS
  • Docker, Kubernetes
  • Google Cloud and/or AWS
  • Experience with CDNs such as Cloudflare, CloudFront, or Akamai
  • A passion for games and gaming communities

Our Stack

  • Electron, React, Redux, Styled Components & other modern web-based technologies
  • C# and C++ for native windows recording & more
  • Swift for iOS, Kotlin for Android
  • Java, Redis, RabbitMQ, Kubernetes for backend
  • Terraform, Salt, GitHub Actions, CircleCI for IaC and CI/CD

Why Join Us

  • Work on cutting-edge tech and help shape the future of gaming.
  • Passionate team that values ownership and innovation.
  • Competitive salary, equity options, health insurance, 401k.

WHAT YOU'LL HAVE TO DO NOW


We hope to hear from you! When you apply, please make sure to include:

• Links to apps you’ve released/portfolio, and a description of your contributions

• Links to any online profiles (Github, LinkedIn, Twitter, etc)

• A description of your professional experience (resume, LinkedIn profile, cover letter, or similar)

Top Skills

Java
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The Company
HQ: New York, New York
57 Employees
Hybrid Workplace
Year Founded: 2015

What We Do

About Us: Create gaming memories while apart — Medal enables you to reliably capture and meaningfully share online memories with friends (..that would otherwise be lost to time).

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