Senior / Lead Backend Engineer
General Intuition & Medal•New York, NY
•$180,000 - $275,000
About The Position
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.
Requirements
- 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
- 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
Nice To Haves
- Redis, RabbitMQ, or other message brokers and caching systems
- SRE/DevOps or DevSecOps experience
Responsibilities
- Architect and build highly scalable, low-latency systems
- Design critical APIs
- Evolve backend infrastructure
- Mentor other engineers
- Drive technical decisions that impact millions of users
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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