Senior Backend Architect — Scalable Microservices

Medal

New York (NY)

On-site

USD 140,000 - 190,000

Full time

14 days+
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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.

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