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Midnite is a next-generation sports betting and gaming platform with over 400,000 players. The company operates at pace with high ownership, constant iteration, and fast execution.
You will join as a Senior Backend Engineer on the Platform Engineering team, working as a senior individual contributor focused on the core systems that power Midnite's product platform. This role involves understanding how systems fit together, improving service boundaries and reliability, and building technical foundations that help teams move faster and safer.
Key responsibilities include:
- Design, build, and improve backend and platform systems supporting Midnite's core product
- Work on complex platform problems across scalability, reliability, service isolation, and regional readiness
- Define clean boundaries and interfaces across existing services and data flows
- Contribute to systems supporting multi-region and future market expansion
- Improve observability, deployment practices, performance, and operational maturity
- Work across app-layer systems and platform foundations
- Contribute production code, reviews, and technical design as part of day-to-day delivery
- Help identify failure points, reduce risk, and make the platform more resilient as usage grows
- Collaborate with engineers across Australia, the UK, and Canada with strong async communication
- Partner with the Platform team on architecture and implementation decisions
- Work with product engineering teams where platform changes touch existing systems
- Communicate clearly across time zones, raising risks and blockers early
- Help create a high-ownership engineering culture in the Australia team
The platform is primarily built in Python and hosted on AWS, using Flask/FastAPI, Pytest, Mypy, Docker, PostgreSQL, SQS/Kafka, S3, and Terraform. The team deploys daily.
The company offers flexible working, fully supported home office setup, and is committed to building balanced, diverse teams.
REQUIREMENTS:
- Strong senior-level backend or platform engineering experience
- Experience independently delivering complex technical projects
- Strong backend capability in Python or comparable modern language (Go, Rust, Java, Scala)
- Comfortable learning new languages and systems quickly
- Strong understanding of distributed systems, scalability, and architecture trade-offs
- Experience with microservices, service boundaries, eventual consistency, data separation, or reliability engineering
- Comfortable working across app-layer systems and platform/infrastructure concerns
- Strong communication skills and ability to work effectively across time zones
- High ownership, strong judgement, and comfort operating in ambiguity
