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Senior / Lead Backend Engineer

New York City💼 Full-time🗓 2026-07-14 → 2026-09-26

Core

Architect and build highly scalable, low-latency backend systems for real-time in-app communications, storage of billions of user-generated clips, and ML-based feed features.

Role type

Senior/Lead Backend Engineer

Builds

Scalable microservices, critical APIs, and backend infrastructure for a gaming clip platform serving millions of users.

Domain

Gaming / High-scale distributed systems

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | infrastructure

Required skills

Java, scalable microservices, RESTful API design, distributed systems, MySQL/PostgreSQL, high-throughput system design, cloud infrastructure (GCP/AWS), CI/CD, infrastructure as code, system design, security best practices

Preferred skills

Redis, RabbitMQ, message brokers, caching systems, SRE/DevOps, DevSecOps

Technologies

Java, Redis, RabbitMQ, Kubernetes, Terraform, Salt, GitHub Actions, CircleCI

Responsibilities

Design and build scalable backend systems, architect critical APIs, evolve backend infrastructure, mentor engineers, drive technical decisions

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with leadership responsibilities

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