Senior Staff Software Engineer Backend
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Summary
General Intuition (Medal) is hiring a Senior Staff Backend Engineer in New York City to architect scalable, low-latency backend systems powering real-time communications, clip storage, feeds, and social features for millions of users. The core stack is Java microservices with MySQL/PostgreSQL, Redis, RabbitMQ, and GCP/AWS cloud infrastructure.
You will architect and build scalable, low-latency backend systems that support real-time communications, clip storage, feeds, and social features. You will design APIs, evolve backend infrastructure, mentor engineers, and lead technical decisions that affect millions of users.
Responsibilities
- Architect and build scalable, low-latency backend systems
- Design critical APIs
- Evolve backend infrastructure
- Mentor engineers
- Drive cross-team technical decisions
Requirements
- 5+ years of backend engineering experience
- Java
- Microservice
- REST API
- Distributed system
- MySQL
- PostgreSQL
- Performance tuning
- Schema design
- Cloud infrastructure
- GCP
- AWS
- CI/CD
- Infrastructure as code
- System design
- Architectural pattern
- Security
- Communication
- Leadership
- Redis
- RabbitMQ
- Message broker
- Caching
- SRE
- DevOps
- DevSecOps
Benefits
- Equity
- Medical coverage
- Dental coverage
- Vision coverage
- 401(k)
- Fertility benefits
- Parental benefits
- Generous PTO
- Daily meals
- Wellness benefits
- Commuter benefits
- Learning and development stipend