Medal

Senior Backend Engineer (Java) - NYC

New York, NY
USD 140k - 200k
Chef Elasticsearch MySQL PostgreSQL Node.js Docker Kubernetes GCP AWS API Java Terraform Git Redis Python
Search for More Jobs Talk to a recruiter now 💪
Description
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


There are more than 50,000 engineering jobs:

Subscribe to membership and unlock all jobs

Engineering Jobs

60,000+ jobs from 4,500+ well-funded companies

Updated Daily

New jobs are added every day as companies post them

Refined Search

Use filters like skill, location, etc to narrow results

Become a member

🥳🥳🥳 307 happy customers and counting...

Overall, over 80% of customers chose to renew their subscriptions after the initial sign-up.

Cancel anytime / Money-back guarantee

Wall of love from fellow engineers