What are the responsibilities and job description for the Backend Engineer position at Medal?
Medal enables millions of gamers to capture and share their best gaming moments and create memories together. Medal users create 3M videos per day across over a million daily active users on our desktop and mobile applications. Your work will have a real impact on millions of people around the world!
Medal's backend team is responsible for creating REST APIs that power our whole application, supporting real-time in-app communications, storing billions of user-generated gaming clips, powering Medal's ML-based content feed and friend recommendations, and much more.
Essential Experience
- Experience with Java (level-dependent, from foundational to expert proficiency)
- Experience as a backend engineer on a production application (from entry-level contributions to leading projects)
- Understanding of RESTful APIs and experience architecting and implementing them in a production environment at scale
- Proficiency with relational databases such as MySQL and PostgreSQL, with an understanding of schema design, indexing, relations, and performance optimizations
- Comfortable working on systems handling thousands of requests per second
- Experience managing cloud infrastructure
- Designing scalable infrastructure and architectures
- Understanding of CI / CD, TDD, and version control (Git)
Bonus Experience
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