Fullstack Engineer, Medal.tv
Tasking
$180-300k
Offers equity
Social platform for short-form gaming video clips
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Social platform for short-form gaming video clips
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
$180-300k
Offers equity
21-100 employees
Company mission
To connect people by creating memories while they are physically apart!
Role
Who you are
- We're spinning it up now and need someone to own it end-to-end
What the job involves
- Nerve is MGI's platform to enable human feedback within our research engine. Today, Nerve is a desktop app that allows users to browse tasks, record gameplay, and get paid, backed by services that manage sessions, verify uploads, and process payouts
- Next, Nerve will power ever more diverse tasks such as watching and correcting the model, collecting data of humans operating in simulation, and real-world teleoperation tasking
- We're spinning it up now and need someone to own it end-to-end. You'll lead the engineering and think like an owner about where the platform goes - we need extremely high ownership and ruthless optimization for speed
- You integrate with our C#/.NET game recorder over WebSocket JSON-RPC - screen capture, game detection, input capture, video encoding - and debug across the Electron↔recorder boundary when things break; you're at home with the Electron main↔renderer split and IPC (deep Node.js is enough if Electron is new)
- You build anti-cheat and fraud detection - server-side validation that catches faked gameplay, AFK farming, input spoofing, and manipulated recordings. Workers are paid to beat you; your job is to make it impossible
- You own the money path in Java / Spring Boot against Postgres - earnings, payouts, and status tracking (Tipalti) on an immutable, auditable ledger where correctness is non-negotiable (migrations, query optimization, transaction isolation)
- You build the admin tools in Next.js for managing users, reviewing sessions, and processing payments - productive day one in TypeScript + React (Zustand, Vite)
- You harden the full stack - mTLS between Cloudflare and origin, OIDC-authenticated Pub/Sub webhooks, encrypted-at-rest auth tokens (Electron safeStorage/DPAPI), a pillar-encrypted secrets pipeline, and signed installers - on GCP (Cloud Run, Cloud SQL, GCS, Pub/Sub, Secret Manager), reading Terraform and debugging deploys as you go
- You run the marketplace mechanics - a cohort system for A/B testing task configs (pricing, duration, game selection) to find the price point that maximizes training-data volume and quality per dollar
- You build the legal + compliance tooling - click-wrap ToS versioning, sanctioned-country geofencing, GDPR DSR fulfillment, and worker-classification guardrails that keep the contractor relationship defensible
- Our Stack: Frontend React/TypeScript (Zustand, Vite), admin in Next.js
- Desktop Electron + C#/.NET recorder (WebSocket JSON-RPC)
- Backend Java/Spring Boot + Postgres (Flyway)
- GCP (Cloud Run, Cloud SQL, GCS, Pub/Sub, Secret Manager), Cloudflare, GitHub Actions, Terraform
- Media: ffprobe, CRC32C, NVENC/AMF
- Payments: Tipalti
Our take
Video games have become highly social experiences due to multiplayer gaming, eSports and social media, spawning a huge market for audiences who enjoy watching gaming-related video content. Gamers commonly stream games and edit the footage to produce memes and engage with friends, but this requires many software tools and a separate platform on which to share experiences.
Medal.tv provides a social platform for gaming video clips, allowing users to record and edit footage, make gaming memes, and share content with friends within the same software. The platform collects in-game data to mitigate cheating and cyberbullying and integrates directly into any Windows or Android game.
Whilst the company will face great competition from platform giants such as Youtube, TikTok and Twitch, Medal.tv shows the potential to stand out by being specifically designed for gaming content. Furthermore, the platform’s accessible video capturing and editing interface keeps the end-to-end social gaming experience within the same platform, making it more convenient and immersive for gamers than on other platforms.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-21% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Jul 2024
$13m
LATE VC
Dec 2021
$45m
SERIES C
Total funding: $85.8m
Company HQ
Flatiron District, New York, NY
Leadership
Joshua Lipson
(Co-Founder & Chief Architect)Co-founder and Chief Architect at Highlight. Full Stack Developer and CTO of Soulsplit from 2013 to 2015.
Iggy Harmsen
(Co-Founder & Product Design)Worked in CS & Marketing for Soulsplit from 2012 to 2015.
Ken Colton
(CEO)Joined the company as Lead Software Engineer in 2021, becoming CTO then President then CEO. Previously Lead Software Engineer at Gif Your Game, Technical Lead at Grubhub and CTO at Material World Co. Co-founded and was Front-End Lead at Twubs.
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