Senior / Lead Backend Engineer

Medal

$130K — $180K *
Enterprise Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of backend engineering experience in production environments
  • Strong proficiency in Java and building scalable microservices
  • Deep understanding of RESTful API design and distributed systems
  • Experience with MySQL or PostgreSQL, focusing on performance tuning
  • Comfort with GCP or AWS cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, and infrastructure as code
  • Strong grasp of system design, architectural patterns, and security best practices
  • Excellent communication and leadership skills for cross-team collaboration

Responsibilities

  • Architect and build highly scalable, low-latency backend systems
  • Design and improve APIs that support product features
  • Mentor junior engineers and foster technical growth within the team
  • Drive technical decisions that affect a large user base
  • Collaborate with product, infrastructure, and data teams for optimal workflow

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work on cutting-edge technologies in real-time systems
  • Impact millions of users with scalable application architecture
  • Collaborative environment with cross-functional teams
  • Mentorship opportunities for career development
  • Exposure to cloud technologies and modern engineering practices
Full Job Description
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

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