The Senior / Lead Backend Engineer will be responsible for powering the backend systems that ... Medal is a developer of a short-form gaming video clips platform to share digital game clips and ...
The Senior / Lead Backend Engineer will be responsible for powering the backend systems that ... Medal is a developer of a short-form gaming video clips platform to share digital game clips and ...
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Senior / Lead Backend Engineer
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$180K - $275K/yr
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Job description
Job Summary:
Medal is the largest platform for gaming clips, aiming to make sharing and connecting around gaming seamless and fun. The Senior / Lead Backend Engineer will be responsible for powering the backend systems that support real-time communications and user-generated content, while also mentoring engineers and making impactful technical decisions.
Responsibilities:
• 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
• driving technical decisions that impact millions of users
Qualifications:
Required:
• 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
• Relational databases: 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
Preferred:
• Redis, RabbitMQ, or other message brokers and caching systems
• SRE/DevOps or DevSecOps experience
Company:
Medal is a developer of a short-form gaming video clips platform to share digital game clips and highlights with gamers. Founded in 2015, the company is headquartered in Naarden, NLD, with a team of 51-200 employees. The company is currently Growth Stage.
Medal is the largest platform for gaming clips, aiming to make sharing and connecting around gaming seamless and fun. The Senior / Lead Backend Engineer will be responsible for powering the backend systems that support real-time communications and user-generated content, while also mentoring engineers and making impactful technical decisions.
Responsibilities:
• 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
• driving technical decisions that impact millions of users
Qualifications:
Required:
• 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
• Relational databases: 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
Preferred:
• Redis, RabbitMQ, or other message brokers and caching systems
• SRE/DevOps or DevSecOps experience
Company:
Medal is a developer of a short-form gaming video clips platform to share digital game clips and highlights with gamers. Founded in 2015, the company is headquartered in Naarden, NLD, with a team of 51-200 employees. The company is currently Growth Stage.
About Medal
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Company size
11 - 50 Employees
Headquarters location
San Francisco, CA, US
Year founded
2015