About the Role
Medal's backend powers real-time in-app communications, storage of billions of user-generated clips, and ML-based feed and social features. You will collaborate with product, infra, and data teams to architect and build highly scalable, low-latency systems, design critical APIs, evolve backend infrastructure, mentor engineers, and drive technical decisions impacting millions of users.
Responsibilities
- Architect and build highly scalable, low-latency systems
- Design critical APIs
- Evolve backend infrastructure
- Mentor other engineers
- Drive technical decisions that impact millions of users
Requirements
- 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
- 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 preferred), CI/CD, and infrastructure as code
- Strong grasp of system design, architectural patterns, and security best practices
- Strong communication and leadership skills, with the ability to drive cross-team projects
Skills
- Java
- Scalable microservices
- RESTful API design
- Distributed systems
- MySQL
- PostgreSQL
- Cloud infrastructure (GCP or AWS)
- CI/CD
- Infrastructure as code
- System design
- Architectural patterns
- Security best practices
- Redis
- RabbitMQ
- SRE/DevOps
- DevSecOps
Experience Level
- 5+ years of backend engineering experience
About the Company
- General Intuition is the frontier lab for acting in space and time.
- We build large action models and world models that can perceive, predict, and act across virtual and physical environments.
- General Intuition builds on the strength of Medal, the world's largest and fastest-growing platform for gaming clips, where millions of gamers capture, share, and discover new games every year.
- We recently raised $320M at a $2.3B valuation led by Khosla Ventures with participation from General Catalyst, Eric Schmidt, and Jeff Bezos, to discover the next generation of real-world intelligence.
