Senior​/Lead Backend Engineer

$180K – $275K Offers Equity The compensation may vary further depending on individualized factors for candidates, such as job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and other objective business considerations.

Benefits:

Comprehensive medical, dental, vision coverage; 401(k); fertility and parental benefits; generous PTO; daily meals, wellness & commuter benefits at our NYC HQ; learning and development stipend

Medal's backend powers everything from real-time in-app communications and storage of billions of user-generated clips to our ML-based feed and social features. You'll work closely with product, infra, and data teams to architect and build highly scalable, low-latency systems, helping design critical APIs, evolving our backend infrastructure, mentoring other engineers, and driving technical decisions that impact millions of users.

• 5+ years of backend engineering experience, with significant time in production environments
• Strong proficiency in Java and hands‑on experience building scalable microservices
• Deep understanding of RESTful API design and distributed systems
• Relational databases:
  Experience with MySQL or PostgreSQL, including performance tuning and schema design
• Experience building systems that handle thousands of requests per second
• Comfort with cloud infrastructure (GCP or AWS preferred), CI/CD, and infrastructure as code
• Strong grasp of system design, architectural patterns, and security best practices
• Strong communication and leadership skills, with the ability to drive cross‑team projects
• Bonus:
  Redis, RabbitMQ, or other message brokers and caching systems; SRE/Dev Ops or Dev Sec Ops  experience

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, Git Hub Actions, CircleCI for IaC and CI/CD

Millions of gamers capture, share, and discover new games on Medal, the largest platform for gaming clips. Our mission is to design products that make sharing and connecting around gaming seamless and fun, and build a place where brands and game publishers can reach high‑quality gamers to grow their products.