Senior / Lead Backend Engineer

Medal L.P.
New York, United States of America
2 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English
Experience level
Senior
Compensation
$ 275K

Job location

New York, United States of America

Tech stack

Java
API
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
iOS
Architectural Patterns
C Sharp (Programming Language)
C++
Cloud Computing
Continuous Integration
Relational Databases
DevOps
Distributed Systems
Github
PostgreSQL
Message Broker
MySQL
Performance Tuning
RabbitMQ
Redis
Web Services
CircleCI
React
Electron (Programming Language)
Backend
Kotlin
Kubernetes
Low Latency
Web Technologies
React
REST
Terraform
Devsecops
Microservices

Job description

Medal's backend powers everything from real-time in-app communications and storage of billions of user-generated clips to our ML-based feed and social features. You'll 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, and driving technical decisions that impact millions of users.

Requirements

Do you have experience in Web services design?, * 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
  • Bonus: Redis, RabbitMQ, or other message brokers and caching systems; SRE/DevOps or DevSecOps experience

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

Benefits & conditions

Pulled from the full job description

  • Health insurance
  • Paid time off
  • Vision insurance
  • Dental insurance
  • Commuter assistance, * $180K - $275K * Offers Equity

The compensation may vary further depending on individualized factors for candidates, such as job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and other objective business considerations.

Benefits: Comprehensive medical, dental, vision coverage; 401(k); fertility and parental benefits; generous PTO; daily meals, wellness & commuter benefits at our NYC HQ; learning and development stipend Overview

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