Senior Backend Engineer: Real-time, Scalable Microservices

Engg; New York (NY); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

General Intuition is building the Medal backend to power real-time communications and billions of user clips. We seek a senior backend engineer to architect scalable, low-latency systems, design APIs, and mentor teams.

You will work with product, infra, and data teams to drive technical decisions, reliability, and security while leveraging Java, microservices, and modern cloud infrastructure.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of backend engineering in production environments.
• Strong proficiency in Java and building scalable microservices.
• Deep understanding of RESTful API design and distributed systems.
• Relational databases experience with MySQL or PostgreSQL, including performance tuning and schema design.
• Experience building systems that handle thousands of requests per second.

Responsibilities

• Architect and implement scalable, low-latency backend services.
• Design and evolve critical APIs and data access layers.
• Mentor engineers and drive cross-team technical decisions.
• Collaborate with product, infra, and data teams to ensure reliable deployments.
• Ensure security, reliability, and scalability across services.

Skills

Java

Microservices

RESTful APIs

Distributed systems

MySQL PostgreSQL

Cloud platforms

CI/CD IaC

System design security

Leadership cross-team

Performance tuning

Tools

Redis

RabbitMQ

Kubernetes

Terraform

GitHub Actions

CircleCI

Job description

General Intuition is building the Medal backend to power real-time communications and billions of user clips. We seek a senior backend engineer to architect scalable, low-latency systems, design APIs, and mentor teams.

You will work with product, infra, and data teams to drive technical decisions, reliability, and security while leveraging Java, microservices, and modern cloud infrastructure.