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)
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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).
