Senior Staff Software Engineer Backend
New York AI research lab building action and world models for virtual and physical environments.
Funding history
About General Intuition
General Intuition develops foundation models trained on action-labeled gameplay data to perceive, predict, and act across games, simulation, and robotics. Its public research includes MIRA, a playable multiplayer Rocket League world model created with Kyutai in collaboration with Epic Games.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will architect and build scalable, low-latency backend systems that support real-time communications, clip storage, feeds, and social features. You will design APIs, evolve backend infrastructure, mentor engineers, and lead technical decisions that affect millions of users.
Requirements
- 5+ years of backend engineering experience
- Java
- Microservice
- REST API
- Distributed system
- MySQL
- PostgreSQL
- Performance tuning
- Schema design
- Cloud infrastructure
- GCP
- AWS
- CI/CD
- Infrastructure as code
- System design
- Architectural pattern
- Security
- Communication
- Leadership
- Redis
- RabbitMQ
- Message broker
- Caching
- SRE
- DevOps
- DevSecOps
Responsibilities
- Architect and build scalable, low-latency backend systems
- Design critical APIs
- Evolve backend infrastructure
- Mentor engineers
- Drive cross-team technical decisions
Benefits
- Equity
- Medical coverage
- Dental coverage
- Vision coverage
- 401(k)
- Fertility benefits
- Parental benefits
- Generous PTO
- Daily meals
- Wellness benefits
- Commuter benefits
- Learning and development stipend