Senior Backend Engineer — Scalable Microservices & Cloud

Medal.TV; New York (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Medal seeks an experienced backend engineer to design and build scalable, low-latency services powering live in-app communications and media storage. You will collaborate with product, infra, and data teams to craft robust APIs and evolve our backend infrastructure for millions of users.

You should bring 5+ years in production-grade backend systems, deep Java skills, and a strong grasp of distributed architectures, cloud platforms, and security best practices.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of backend engineering experience, with significant time in production environments.
• Strong proficiency in Java and hands-on experience building scalable microservices.
• Deep understanding of RESTful API design and distributed systems.
• Relational databases: MySQL or PostgreSQL, including performance tuning and schema design.
• Experience building systems that handle thousands of requests per second.
• Comfort with cloud infrastructure (GCP or AWS preferred), CI/CD, and infrastructure as code.
• Strong grasp of system design, architectural patterns, and security best practices.
• Strong communication and leadership skills, with the ability to drive cross-team projects.
• Bonus: Redis, RabbitMQ, or other message brokers and caching systems; SRE/DevOps or DevSecOps experience.

Skills

Backend engineering

Java

Microservices

RESTful APIs

Distributed systems

Cloud platforms

CI/CD

Infrastructure as Code

Security best practices

Communication

Leadership

Tools

Redis

RabbitMQ

Kubernetes

Terraform

Salt

GitHub Actions

CircleCI

Job description

Medal seeks an experienced backend engineer to design and build scalable, low-latency services powering live in-app communications and media storage. You will collaborate with product, infra, and data teams to craft robust APIs and evolve our backend infrastructure for millions of users.

You should bring 5+ years in production-grade backend systems, deep Java skills, and a strong grasp of distributed architectures, cloud platforms, and security best practices.