4 months ago
Remote, AustraliaSenior
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and improve backend and platform systems supporting Midnite’s core product.
- Address scalability, reliability, service isolation, regional readiness, and multi-region expansion challenges.
- Define clean service boundaries and interfaces across existing systems and data flows.
- Improve observability, deployment practices, performance, and operational maturity.
- Contribute production code, code reviews, and technical designs.
- Identify failure points, reduce risk, and improve platform resilience as usage grows.
- Independently drive complex technical work from high-level direction through delivery.
- Collaborate with platform and product engineering teams across Australia, the UK, and Canada.
Requirements
- Strong senior-level backend or platform engineering experience.
- Experience independently delivering complex technical projects.
- Strong backend capability in Python or a comparable language such as Go, Rust, Java, or Scala.
- Strong understanding of distributed systems, scalability, and architecture trade-offs.
- Experience with microservices, service boundaries, eventual consistency, data separation, or reliability engineering.
- Comfort working across application-layer systems and platform or infrastructure concerns.
- Ability to learn new languages and systems quickly.
- Strong communication, ownership, judgement, and ability to work effectively across time zones and ambiguity.
Benefits
- Remote work in Australia with flexible working.
- Fully supported home office setup.
- Opportunity to join Midnite while it establishes and grows its presence in Australia, with benefits expanding over time.
- Inclusive and supportive interview experience with reasonable adjustments available.
Tech Stack
About Midnite
Midnite builds a consumer sports, esports, and casino betting platform delivered via mobile and web apps. The company operates a sportsbook and gaming product with revenue from wagering margins and is scaling across multiple markets. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in London, it is privately held and hires engineers to evolve backend and platform systems for its core betting services.