3 months ago
Remote, CanadaSenior
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and improve backend and platform systems supporting Midnite’s core product.
- Solve complex platform problems involving scalability, reliability, service isolation, regional readiness, and multi-region expansion.
- Define clean boundaries and interfaces across services and data flows, including data separation for the Canada launch.
- Improve observability, deployment practices, performance, and operational maturity.
- Work across application-layer systems and platform foundations while contributing production code, reviews, and technical design.
- Independently drive complex technical projects from high-level direction through delivery.
- Collaborate asynchronously with platform and product engineering teams across Canada, the UK, and Australia.
- Identify failure points, reduce risk, and improve platform resilience as usage grows.
Requirements
- Strong senior-level backend or platform engineering experience.
- Experience independently delivering complex technical projects.
- Strong backend capability in Python, or experience with Go, Rust, Java, or Scala and the ability to ramp up on Python.
- 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.
- Strong written communication and ability to work effectively across time zones.
- High ownership, sound technical judgment, and comfort operating in ambiguous environments.
Benefits
- Remote work in Canada with flexible working and a fully supported home-office setup.
- Private healthcare coverage.
- 33 days of annual leave including public holidays, with additional tenure-based increases.
- Employer-matched RRSP pension plan with a 3% company match.
- Benefits offering may be reviewed and enhanced as Midnite establishes its local Canadian entity.
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.