Senior/Staff Software Engineer - Backend

Job TitleBackend EngineerAbout The CompanyGeneral 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 RoleMedal'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 For5+ 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 experienceOur StackElectron, 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 Medal