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'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