Senior Frontend Engineer (React)
Role Overview
This senior role involves building high-quality features with React and Electron to scale a gaming clip platform to over 100 million users, working in a talented engineering team to create new experiences for gamers. Day-to-day tasks include iterating quickly on features, collaborating with leadership and the community, and ensuring code performance in production. The hire will have significant impact by directly shaping the platform's growth and user engagement through regular feature shipping.
Perks & Benefits
The job offers a remote setup with an in-person preference in NYC for 5 days in the office, implying flexibility but potential time zone alignment with Eastern Time. Benefits include competitive salary, meaningful equity, comprehensive health insurance with dental and vision, and a 401k plan. The culture is result-driven, fast-paced with regular shipping, and values ownership and attention to detail, fostering career growth through direct leadership interaction and community engagement.
Full Job Description
Medal
Medal is the world’s largest and fastest-growing platform for gaming clips, where millions of gamers capture, share, and relive their best moments. Every year, our players record billions of clips, each representing a unique, action-packed highlight. We’re building the next generation of gaming communities — social, monetized, and creator-powered. Our mission is to design products that make sharing, discovering, and connecting around gaming moments seamless and fun.
We raised a seed round of $133M from General Catalyst and Khosla to discover the next generation of intelligence.
The Role
You'll be part of a talented team of engineers who have experience working with large-scale applications. You will be supporting us to scale the platform to 100+ million users by building high-quality features that our creators love, and your work will help create new experiences for the next generation of gamers.
The majority of work will be in React on our Electron app. You will iterate quickly and see which features stick. You'll work directly with leadership and our community to ship features regularly.
What we're looking for
5+ years of frontend engineering experience
Experience with React, Redux and Electron: You'll spend most of your time building things with React and will need to understand modern React practices (and Javascript / NodeJS in general)
Bonus to have full-stack XP: including Java, C#, and C++
In-person: Looking to hire in NYC to contribute alongside the product team. 5 days in the office
Ownership & attention to detail: You see things through, and can be responsible for end-to-end quality of complex features
Code Performance: Excellent understanding of code performance implications in production and confident with profiling tools
Be result-driven: Everything we do is driven by the metrics and performance of the feature. We move fast and ship regularly
Measuring with metrics: Comfort with A/B testing and measuring results with usage metrics
Gaming: A passion for games and the gaming communities, and a user of Discord and other gaming-adjacent products. XP working on gaming-related projects is a plus
Our stack Electron, React, Redux, Styled Components & other modern web-based technologiesC# and C++ for native windows recording & moreSwift for iOS, Kotlin for AndroidJava, Redis, RabbitMQ, Kubernetes for backendTerraform, Salt, GitHub Actions, CircleCI for IaC and CI/CD
Benefits
Competitive salary and meaningful equity
Comprehensive health insurance including dental and vision insurance
401k
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