Backend Engineer, Medal.tv

• 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)

Desirable

• 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

• We hope to hear from you! When you apply, please make sure to include:
• Links to apps you’ve released/portfolio, and a description of your contributions
• Links to any online profiles (Github, LinkedIn, Twitter, etc)
• A description of your professional experience (resume, LinkedIn profile, cover letter, or similar)