Senior/Staff Software Engineer – Backend
Location
New York City
Address
New York City, NY
Employment Type
Full time
Location Type
On-site
Department
General Intuition & Medal
Compensation
$180K – $275K Offers Equity
The compensation may vary further depending on individualized factors for candidates, such as job-related knowledge, skills, experience, location, and other objective business considerations.
Benefits:
Comprehensive medical, dental, vision coverage; 401(k fertility and parental benefits; generous PTO; daily meals, wellness & commuter benefits at our NYC HQ; learning and development stipend. Benefits vary by country and employment type.
OverviewApplication
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've raised over $650M from Khosla, GC, Valor, and Point72 since October 2025, and recently closed our latest round at a $6.2B valuation.
The Role
Medal's backend powers everything from real-time in-app communications and storage of billions of user-generated clips to our ML-based feed and social features. You'll work closely with product, infra, and data teams to architect and build highly scalable, low-latency systems, helping design critical APIs, evolving our backend infrastructure, mentoring other engineers, and driving technical decisions that impact millions of users.
What We're Looking For
5+ years of backend engineering experience, with significant time in production environmentsStrong proficiency in Java and hands-on experience building scalable microservicesDeep understanding of RESTful API design and distributed systemsRelational databases: Experience with MySQL or PostgreSQL, including performance tuning and schema designExperience building systems that handle thousands of requests per secondComfort with cloud infrastructure (GCP or AWS preferred), CI/CD, and infrastructure as codeStrong grasp of system design, architectural patterns, and security best practicesStrong communication and leadership skills, with the ability to drive cross-team projectsBonus: Redis, RabbitMQ, or other message brokers and caching systems; SRE/DevOps or DevSecOps experience
Our Stack
Electron, React, Redux, Styled Components & other modern web-based technologies
C# and C++ for native Windows recording & more
Swift for iOS, Kotlin for Android
Java, Redis, RabbitMQ, Kubernetes for backend
Terraform, Salt, GitHub Actions, CircleCI for IaC and CI/CD
Compensation Range: $180K - $275K
What We're Looking For
5+ years of backend engineering experience, with significant time in production environmentsStrong proficiency in Java and hands-on experience building scalable microservicesDeep understanding of RESTful API design and distributed systemsRelational databases: Experience with MySQL or PostgreSQL, including performance tuning and schema designExperience building systems that handle thousands of requests per secondComfort with cloud infrastructure (GCP or AWS preferred), CI/CD, and infrastructure as codeStrong grasp of system design, architectural patterns, and security best practicesStrong communication and leadership skills, with the ability to drive cross-team projectsBonus: Redis, RabbitMQ, or other message brokers and caching systems; SRE/DevOps or DevSecOps experience
Our Stack
Electron, React, Redux, Styled Components & other modern web-based technologies
C# and C++ for native Windows recording & more
Swift for iOS, Kotlin for Android
Java, Redis, RabbitMQ, Kubernetes for backend
Terraform, Salt, GitHub Actions, CircleCI for IaC and CI/CD
Compensation Range: $180K - $275K
What We're Looking For
5+ years of backend engineering experience, with significant time in production environmentsStrong proficiency in Java and hands-on experience building scalable microservicesDeep understanding of RESTful API design and distributed systemsRelational databases: Experience with MySQL or PostgreSQL, including performance tuning and schema designExperience building systems that handle thousands of requests per secondComfort with cloud infrastructure (GCP or AWS preferred), CI/CD, and infrastructure as codeStrong grasp of system design, architectural patterns, and security best practicesStrong communication and leadership skills, with the ability to drive cross-team projectsBonus: Redis, RabbitMQ, or other message brokers and caching systems; SRE/DevOps or DevSecOps experience
Our Stack
Electron, React, Redux, Styled Components & other modern web-based technologies
C# and C++ for native Windows recording & more
Swift for iOS, Kotlin for Android
Java, Redis, RabbitMQ, Kubernetes for backend
Terraform, Salt, GitHub Actions, CircleCI for IaC and CI/CD
Compensation Range: $180K - $275K
New York City
Address
New York City, NY
Employment Type
Full time
Location Type
On-site
Department
General Intuition & Medal
Compensation
$180K – $275K Offers Equity
The compensation may vary further depending on individualized factors for candidates, such as job-related knowledge, skills, experience, location, and other objective business considerations.
Benefits:
Comprehensive medical, dental, vision coverage; 401(k fertility and parental benefits; generous PTO; daily meals, wellness & commuter benefits at our NYC HQ; learning and development stipend. Benefits vary by country and employment type.
OverviewApplication
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've raised over $650M from Khosla, GC, Valor, and Point72 since October 2025, and recently closed our latest round at a $6.2B valuation.
The Role
Medal's backend powers everything from real-time in-app communications and storage of billions of user-generated clips to our ML-based feed and social features. You'll work closely with product, infra, and data teams to architect and build highly scalable, low-latency systems, helping design critical APIs, evolving our backend infrastructure, mentoring other engineers, and driving technical decisions that impact millions of users.
What We're Looking For
5+ years of backend engineering experience, with significant time in production environmentsStrong proficiency in Java and hands-on experience building scalable microservicesDeep understanding of RESTful API design and distributed systemsRelational databases: Experience with MySQL or PostgreSQL, including performance tuning and schema designExperience building systems that handle thousands of requests per secondComfort with cloud infrastructure (GCP or AWS preferred), CI/CD, and infrastructure as codeStrong grasp of system design, architectural patterns, and security best practicesStrong communication and leadership skills, with the ability to drive cross-team projectsBonus: Redis, RabbitMQ, or other message brokers and caching systems; SRE/DevOps or DevSecOps experience
Our Stack
Electron, React, Redux, Styled Components & other modern web-based technologies
C# and C++ for native Windows recording & more
Swift for iOS, Kotlin for Android
Java, Redis, RabbitMQ, Kubernetes for backend
Terraform, Salt, GitHub Actions, CircleCI for IaC and CI/CD
Compensation Range: $180K - $275K
What We're Looking For
5+ years of backend engineering experience, with significant time in production environmentsStrong proficiency in Java and hands-on experience building scalable microservicesDeep understanding of RESTful API design and distributed systemsRelational databases: Experience with MySQL or PostgreSQL, including performance tuning and schema designExperience building systems that handle thousands of requests per secondComfort with cloud infrastructure (GCP or AWS preferred), CI/CD, and infrastructure as codeStrong grasp of system design, architectural patterns, and security best practicesStrong communication and leadership skills, with the ability to drive cross-team projectsBonus: Redis, RabbitMQ, or other message brokers and caching systems; SRE/DevOps or DevSecOps experience
Our Stack
Electron, React, Redux, Styled Components & other modern web-based technologies
C# and C++ for native Windows recording & more
Swift for iOS, Kotlin for Android
Java, Redis, RabbitMQ, Kubernetes for backend
Terraform, Salt, GitHub Actions, CircleCI for IaC and CI/CD
Compensation Range: $180K - $275K
What We're Looking For
5+ years of backend engineering experience, with significant time in production environmentsStrong proficiency in Java and hands-on experience building scalable microservicesDeep understanding of RESTful API design and distributed systemsRelational databases: Experience with MySQL or PostgreSQL, including performance tuning and schema designExperience building systems that handle thousands of requests per secondComfort with cloud infrastructure (GCP or AWS preferred), CI/CD, and infrastructure as codeStrong grasp of system design, architectural patterns, and security best practicesStrong communication and leadership skills, with the ability to drive cross-team projectsBonus: Redis, RabbitMQ, or other message brokers and caching systems; SRE/DevOps or DevSecOps experience
Our Stack
Electron, React, Redux, Styled Components & other modern web-based technologies
C# and C++ for native Windows recording & more
Swift for iOS, Kotlin for Android
Java, Redis, RabbitMQ, Kubernetes for backend
Terraform, Salt, GitHub Actions, CircleCI for IaC and CI/CD
Compensation Range: $180K - $275K