Senior/Staff Software Engineer – Backend

Senior/Staff Software Engineer – Backend

New York City, NY · On-site

$180K – $275K · Offers Equity

The compensation may vary further depending on individualized factors for candidates, such as job-related knowledge, skills, experience, location, and other objective business considerations. Benefits:

Comprehensive medical, dental, vision coverage; 401(k); fertility and parental benefits; generous PTO; daily meals, wellness & commuter benefits at our NYC HQ; learning and development stipend. Benefits vary by country and employment type.

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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.

• 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 preferr