Senior Lead Backend Engineer
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Summary
Senior Lead Backend Engineer at General Intuition in New York City, architecting scalable, low-latency backend systems that power real-time communications, clip storage, feeds, and social features. Day-to-day work centers on Java microservices, REST API design, MySQL/PostgreSQL, and GCP/AWS infrastructure, plus mentoring engineers.
You will architect and build scalable, low-latency backend systems supporting real-time communications, clip storage, feeds, and social features. You will design APIs, evolve infrastructure, mentor engineers, and drive technical decisions.
Responsibilities
- Architect and build highly scalable, low-latency backend systems
- Design critical APIs and evolve backend infrastructure
- Support real-time in-app communications, clip storage, feeds, and social features
- Mentor engineers
- Drive cross-team technical decisions
Requirements
- 5+ years of backend engineering experience in production environments
- Java proficiency
- Experience building scalable microservices
- RESTful API design expertise
- Distributed-systems knowledge
- MySQL or PostgreSQL experience including performance tuning and schema design
- Experience handling thousands of requests per second
- Cloud infrastructure experience with GCP or AWS
- CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code experience
- System design, architectural patterns, and security best practices
- Communication and leadership skills
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
- 401(k)
- Fertility and parental benefits
- Generous PTO
- Daily meals
- Wellness benefits
- Commuter benefits at the NYC headquarters
- Learning and development stipend