# Senior / Lead Backend Engineer at General Intuition

- Company: General Intuition
- What the company does: We build a new class of models that can perceive, predict, and act in virtual and physical environments. Backed by General Catalyst and Khosla.
- Company website: https://www.generalintuition.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: New York City
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $180K to $275K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-07-14
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/generalintuition-medal/9f974f5b-ded9-4b4f-8a81-113e7866305c
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/general-intuition-senior-lead-backend-engineer/

## About 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 they're looking for

- 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

Tags: General Intuition & Medal