Backend Engineer (Java), All Levels - NYC

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)