3 months ago
Remote, United KingdomSenior
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, test, monitor, and maintain backend services throughout their lifecycle.
- Build clean, efficient, and well-documented APIs for web and mobile applications.
- Write reliable, scalable, performant, and maintainable code.
- Participate in code reviews and uphold engineering quality standards.
- Contribute to architectural decisions and broader technical strategy.
- Collaborate with engineering, product, design, and external vendors to integrate third-party systems.
- Deliver features and improvements in a continuous-deployment environment.
- Stay current with industry trends, best practices, and emerging technologies.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of professional backend engineering experience building and operating production systems at scale.
- Strong proficiency in Python or another backend language with willingness to learn Python.
- Strong experience designing, building, and operating event-driven architectures using messaging and streaming technologies such as Kafka.
- Experience designing, delivering, and owning significant backend systems from conception through production.
- Strong understanding of system design, distributed systems, scalability, reliability, performance, and observability.
- Experience with PostgreSQL and caching technologies such as Redis.
- Experience building and operating cloud-native applications on AWS.
- Ability to take ownership of problems from discovery and design through implementation, deployment, and ongoing operation.
- Strong collaboration and communication skills with product, design, and engineering stakeholders.
- A pragmatic approach to software engineering that balances technical excellence with customer value.
Benefits
- UK-based remote work.
- Salary of £90,000–£110,000 per annum.
- Opportunity to work on a fast-moving sports betting and gaming platform with high ownership and continuous deployment.
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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.