Senior/Staff Software Engineer – Backend

About Game Devs of Color Expo Our journey began in 2016 when Brooklyn Gamery, led by Catt Small, organized a groundbreaking roundtable discussion with a small group of developers. This meeting laid the foundation for the first Game Devs of Color Expo, a revolutionary showcase of underrepresented game talent. The inaugural expo was held at Microsoft's headquarters in Times Square before finding its home at the historic Schomburg Center in Harlem. As our community grew, so did our impact and partnerships. In 2019, we reached a significant milestone by offering our first grant, the Humble Bundle Game Creator of Color award. Our first award winner, Ethan Redd, received $15,000 to develop a Humble Original game. Since then, we've proudly raised over $400,000 to support game developers of color. When the COVID-19 pandemic emerged, we successfully pivoted to an online-only format. This transition has demonstrated our resilience and adaptability, and it has led to doubled attendance numbers and increased engagement each year. Our mission transcends physical boundaries.

Game Devs of Color Expo

GDoCExpo is a non-profit organization dedicated to amplifying and empowering developers of color in the gaming industry.

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2-10 employees

Civic and Social Organizations

New York, NY

2016

Nonprofit

3.2k LinkedIn followers

• 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.

• 5+ years of backend engineering experience, with significant time in production environments
• Strong proficiency in Java and hands-on experience building scalable microservices
• Deep understanding of RESTful API design and distributed systems
• Relational databases: Experience with MySQL or PostgreSQL, including performance tuning and schema design
• Experience building systems that handle thousands of requests per second
• Comfort with cloud infrastructure (GCP or AWS preferred), CI/CD, and infrastructure as code
• Strong grasp of system design, architectural patterns, and security best practices
• Strong communication and leadership skills, with the ability to drive cross-team projects
• Bonus: Redis, RabbitMQ, or other message brokers and caching systems; SRE/DevOps or DevSecOps experience
• Electron, React, Redux, Styled Components & other modern web-based technologies