Senior / Lead Backend Engineer
General Intuition & Medal · New York City, NY
$180,000–$275,000
Jul 13, 2026
New York City, NY
Jul 20, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior backend engineering role focused on the infrastructure behind a large-scale gaming clip platform. The work involves designing and building high-throughput, low-latency APIs and microservices in Java, maintaining distributed systems that handle real-time communications and billions of stored clips, and contributing to architectural decisions. The role also carries a mentorship and cross-team leadership component.
Senior level · 5+ years · National
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What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762).
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No work location or city is specified in the posting; CBSA is left blank. The role may be remote or at an unstated office — employment type is also unspecified.
MySQL and PostgreSQL are listed together as a single relational-database requirement; PostgreSQL is captured as an alternative.
GCP is explicitly preferred over AWS ('GCP or AWS preferred'), so GCP is the primary with AWS as an alternative.
Redis, RabbitMQ, message brokers/caching, and SRE/DevOps/DevSecOps experience are explicitly called out as 'Bonus' items.
Terraform, Salt, GitHub Actions, CircleCI, and Kubernetes appear only in the 'Our Stack' narrative section, not in the requirements block; they are marked as preferred accordingly.
The title carries no seniority level word; advertised seniority is Unspecified. The 5+ years requirement and scope (mentoring, cross-team technical decisions, architectural ownership) support a Senior classification.
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