Senior/Staff Software Engineer – Backend

General Intuition & Medal; New York (NY); On-site; USD 130,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

General Intuition & Medal is seeking an experienced backend engineer to design and build scalable, low-latency services. You will work closely with product, infra, and data teams to architect APIs, evolve backend infrastructure, and mentor other engineers.

The role emphasizes production-ready systems and secure, robust design across distributed services. You will contribute to a stack including Java, Redis, Kubernetes, and cloud-based deployments, while ensuring high throughput and reliability

Qualifications

• 5+ years of backend engineering experience 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.
• 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

RESTful APIs

Distributed systems

MySQL/PostgreSQL

Cloud (GCP/AWS)

CI/CD

System design

Leadership

Security best practices

Tools

Terraform

Salt

GitHub Actions

CircleCI

Kubernetes

Redis

RabbitMQ

Job description

About The Company

General Intuition is the frontier lab for acting in space and time. We build large action models and world models that can perceive, predict, and act across virtual and physical environments. General Intuition builds on the strength of Medal, the world's largest and fastest-growing platform for gaming clips, where millions of gamers capture, share, and discover new games every year. We've raised over $650M from Khosla, GC, Valor, and Point72 since October 2025, and recently closed our latest round at a $6.2B valuation.

The Role

Medal's backend powers everything from real-time in-app communications and storage of billions of user-generated clips to our ML-based feed and social features. You'll work closely with product, infra, and data teams to architect and build highly scalable, low-latency systems, helping design critical APIs, evolving our backend infrastructure, mentoring other engineers, and driving technical decisions that impact millions of users.

What We're Looking For

• 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: Experience with 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

Our Stack

Electron, React, Redux, Styled Components & other modern web-based technologies
C# and C++ for native Windows recording & more
Swift for iOS, Kotlin for Android
Java, Redis, RabbitMQ, Kubernetes for backend
Terraform, Salt, GitHub Actions, CircleCI for IaC and CI/CD