Senior Backend Engineer (Java) - 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

• 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