Senior Backend Engineer (Java) - NYC

Posted 15 Days Ago
New York, NY
140K-200K Annually
Mid level
Gaming • Mobile • Software
The Role
Medal is looking for a Senior Backend Engineer with 3+ years of experience in Java and backend engineering on a production application. The role involves architecting and implementing RESTful APIs, managing real-time in-app communications, and designing scalable infrastructure and architectures.
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

  • 3+ years of experience with Java
  • 3+ years of experience as a backend engineer on a production application
  • Strong understanding of RESTful APIs and experience architecting and implementing them in a production environment at scale
  • Highly Proficient with relational databases such as MySQL and PostgreSQL. Should have strong understanding of schema design, indexing, relations, and performance optimizations.
  • Comfortable working on systems dealing with 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 the gaming communities



Top Skills

Java
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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