Summary
✨ AI‑Generated
Take a senior technical role building backend systems that operate at significant scale and require low latency. You will architect critical APIs, evolve backend infrastructure, collaborate closely with product, infrastructure, and data specialists, mentor engineers, and help shape robust systems for real-time communication, large-scale user-generated data, and intelligent personalization features.
Highlights
High-impact backend engineering role focused on highly scalable, low-latency systems, critical APIs, infrastructure evolution, technical leadership, and mentoring.
Description
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.
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
