Senior Backend Engineer, Medal.tv
Java
$140-200k
Plus stock options and bonus
Social platform for short-form gaming video clips
Open for applications
Social platform for short-form gaming video clips
21-100 employees
Open for applications
$140-200k
Plus stock options and bonus
21-100 employees
Company mission
To connect people by creating memories while they are physically apart!
Role
Who you are
- 3+ years of experience with Java
- 3+ years of experience as a backend engineer on a production application
- Strong understanding of RESTful APIs and experience architecting and implementing them in a production environment at scale
- Highly Proficient with relational databases such as MySQL and PostgreSQL. Should have strong understanding of schema design, indexing, relations, and performance optimizations
- Comfortable working on systems dealing with thousands of requests per second
- Experience with using caches such as Redis or Memcached
- Experience with using queues to offload work
- Experience managing Cloud infrastructure
- Designing scalable infrastructure and architectures
- Security
- Understanding of CI/CD, TDD and version control (git)
Desirable
- Dependency injection
- Experience with infrastructure management and "infrastructure as code" (Terraform, Salt, Chef, etc)
- ElasticSearch, BigQuery
- Python, NodeJS
- Docker, Kubernetes, Redis, Jersey, Saltstack, RabbitMQ
- Google Cloud and/or AWS
- Experience with CDNs such as Cloudflare, Cloudfront or Akamai
- A passion for games and the gaming communities
What the job involves
- 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
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 to share experiences on.
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
Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
-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: $85.5m
Company benefits
- 💰 Competitive compensation: Our compensation formula adjusts to your cost of living and experience.
- 🏦 Competitive stock options: Joining the Medal journey means you can take part of the company upside
- 💻 Technology: Get hooked up with a laptop to do your best work
- 🏖️ Fully remote work environment
- 🏄♂️ Unlimited vacations (4+ weeks standard)
- 🤑 $1k Home office budget
- ✈️ Team gatherings once we can travel again
- 🍼 Paid parental leave: 20 weeks for primary caregiver and 12 weeks for secondary
- 🎉 All the fun and frolics that come with working for a gaming company
- 🏥 Full Medical for employee and two dependents (US employees only)
- 🏥 Full Dental and Vision for employee and all dependents (US employees only)
- 💵 401K (US employees only)
Company HQ
Naarden, Netherlands
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Leadership
Pim de Witte
(CEO)Experience as Founder, CEO & CTO of Soulsplit from 2009 to 2014. Software Engineer and Product Manager for Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) from 2014 to 2017.
Joshua Lipson
(CTO)Full Stack Developer and CTO of Soulsplit from 2013 to 2015.
Iggy Harmsen
(Business Director)Worked in CS & Marketing for Soulsplit from 2012 to 2015.
Zaid Elnasser
(Software Engineer)Experience as Software Engineer for Fancy Turnip.
Patrick Rietbroek
(Legal and Tax Director)Attorney at Law & Tax Advisor for Baker & McKenzie from 2000 to 2009, Greenberg Traurig from 2009 to 2012 and for Ryan from 2012 to 2015.
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