As a Backend Engineer at Medal, you will develop REST APIs, manage cloud infrastructure, and optimize relational databases to enhance gaming experiences.
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)
Top Skills
AWS
Ci/Cd
Docker
Git
GCP
Java
Kubernetes
MySQL
Postgres
Redis
Rest Apis
Terraform
Medal New York, New York, USA Office
Upper West Side, New York, New York, United States, 10024
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