Backend Engineer (Java), All Levels - NYC
Medal
On-site
Regular employment
0 - 15 years of experience
Full Time
West New York, United States
Responsibilities
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.
$120,000 - $250,000 a year
The compensation may vary further depending on individualized factors for candidates, such as job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and other objective business considerations.
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)
Required skills
Git
Java
MYSQL
Version Control
PostgreSQL
CI/CD
TDD - Test Driven Development
Cloud Infrastructure
RESTful APIs
English
Job posted 16 days ago