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 $140,000 - $200,000 a year The pay range for this position at the start of employment is expected to be between $140,000 and $200,000 per year. However, base pay may vary further depending on individualized factors for candidates, such as job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and other objective business considerations. Moreover, stock options will be issued. Our packages are strong for top-tier talent. The total compensation package for this position may also include other elements, including a bonus and a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits.