General Intuition
Senior/Staff Software Engineer – Backend
$180K–$275K
New York City · On-site · Staff · Full-time · Posted Sep 29, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years of backend engineering experience.
About the job
Build and scale Medal’s backend systems, APIs, infrastructure, and social features for millions of users.
What you'll do
- Architect and build scalable, low-latency backend systems and critical APIs.
- Evolve backend infrastructure in collaboration with product, infrastructure, and data teams.
- Mentor engineers and drive technical decisions and cross-team projects.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of backend engineering experience, including significant time in production environments.
- Strong Java proficiency 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; and systems handling thousands of requests per second.
Nice to have
- Cloud infrastructure experience (GCP or AWS preferred), CI/CD, and infrastructure as code.
- Redis, RabbitMQ, or other message brokers and caching systems; SRE/DevOps or DevSecOps experience.
Pay
$180K – $275K (USD, base salary)
Tools
Java, MySQL, PostgreSQL, GCP, AWS, Redis, RabbitMQ, Kubernetes
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