Senior / Lead Backend Engineer

Medal
New York
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 180,000 - 275,000 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 5+ yearsSkills: ["Communication","Leadership"]

Build and evolve Medal’s backend systems powering real-time communications, storage of billions of gaming clips, and ML-based feed and social features. Collaborate with product, infra, and data teams to design critical REST APIs and highly scalable, low-latency services. Help drive technical decisions, architect backend infrastructure, and mentor other engineers while shipping improvements that impact millions of users.

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Senior / Lead Backend Engineer

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Job Summary

Build and evolve Medal’s backend systems powering real-time communications, storage of billions of gaming clips, and ML-based feed and social features. Collaborate with product, infra, and data teams to design critical REST APIs and highly scalable, low-latency services. Help drive technical decisions, architect backend infrastructure, and mentor other engineers while shipping improvements that impact millions of users.
Location: New York
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Architect and build highly scalable, low-latency backend systems.
  • •Design and improve critical APIs for core product functionality.
  • •Evolve backend infrastructure in collaboration with product, infra, and data teams.
  • •Mentor other engineers and drive technical decisions across the team.
  • •Work on real-time in-app communications and large-scale storage for user-generated clips, plus ML-based feed and social features.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 180,000 - 275,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity

Key Requirements

  • •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.
  • •Experience with relational databases including MySQL or PostgreSQL, with performance tuning and schema design.
  • •Comfort with cloud infrastructure (GCP or AWS preferred), CI/CD, and infrastructure as code.
Experience:5+ yearsMicroservicesDistributed systemsCloud infrastructureHigh-traffic systems
Skills:CommunicationLeadership
Tech Stack:ElectronReactReduxStyled ComponentsC#C++SwiftKotlinJavaRedisRabbitMQKubernetesTerraformSaltGitHub ActionsCircleCI

Company Brief

Medal
Medal (Medal.tv) provides a platform for gamers to capture, edit and share short-form game clips and highlights, and has expanded into contextual AI desktop assistants leveraging its capture technology.
Industry: Gaming
Company Size: Medium (51 to 250 employees)
Growth: Growth Stage Startup
Valuation: USD 250M to 500M
Headquarters: New York, United States
Founded: 2018
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Glassdoor: 4.4
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