Senior Backend Architect — Scalable Microservices

Medal; New York (NY); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Medal in New York seeks an experienced backend engineer to design and implement scalable, low-latency systems powering real-time gaming clips and social features.

You will collaborate with product, infra, and data teams to shape APIs, infrastructure, and security, while mentoring peers and guiding cross-team initiatives.

Candidates should have strong Java background, production microservices, and cloud experience with AWS or GCP.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of backend engineering experience, with production environment exposure.
• Strong proficiency in Java and building scalable microservices.
• Deep understanding of RESTful API design and distributed systems.
• Relational databases experience (MySQL or PostgreSQL) including performance tuning.
• Experience handling thousands of requests per second.
• Cloud infrastructure experience (GCP or AWS), CI/CD, and infrastructure as code.
• Strong system design, architectural patterns, and security practices.
• Strong communication and leadership with cross-team collaboration.
• Bonus: Redis, RabbitMQ, or other message brokers; SRE/DevOps or DevSecOps experience.

Responsibilities

• Architect and build highly scalable, low-latency backend systems.
• Design and evolve core APIs in collaboration with product and infra teams.
• Mentor engineers and drive technical decisions impacting millions of users.
• Ensure robust security and reliability through best practices.

Skills

Backend engineering

Java

Microservices

API design

Distributed systems

Cloud (GCP/AWS)

CI/CD

Security best practices

Leadership/communication

Tools

MySQL

PostgreSQL

Redis

RabbitMQ

Kubernetes

Terraform

Job description

Medal in New York seeks an experienced backend engineer to design and implement scalable, low-latency systems powering real-time gaming clips and social features.

You will collaborate with product, infra, and data teams to shape APIs, infrastructure, and security, while mentoring peers and guiding cross-team initiatives.

Candidates should have strong Java background, production microservices, and cloud experience with AWS or GCP.