Lead Platform Engineer
Midnite is looking for a Lead Platform Engineer to evolve the systems that power its platform as it scales across markets and regions. This senior individual contributor role focuses on the core of the product platform, including understanding system integration, improving boundaries and reliability, and building technical foundations that enable teams to move faster and safer.
The role involves working across backend and platform systems, partnering with the Australia team and the wider global Platform group. The engineer will focus on service boundaries, data separation, interfaces, reliability, deployment, and scalability. This position is suited for someone who can take high-level direction, work independently through ambiguity, and drive complex technical projects forward.
- Design, build, and improve backend and platform systems that support Midnite’s core product.
- Work on complex platform problems across scalability, reliability, service isolation, and regional readiness.
- Help define clean boundaries and interfaces across existing services and data flows.
- Contribute to systems that support multi-region and future market expansion.
- Improve observability, deployment practices, performance, and operational maturity.
- Work across app-layer systems and platform foundations, with support from the team on deeper infrastructure areas where needed.
- 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.
- Take high-level technical direction and independently drive work through to delivery.
- Partner with Clayton, Leon, and the wider Platform team on architecture and implementation decisions.
- Work with product engineering teams where platform changes touch existing product systems.
- Communicate clearly across time zones, raising risks and blockers early.
- Help create a high-ownership engineering culture in the Australia team.
- Bring pragmatic judgement to technical trade-offs, balancing speed, reliability, and maintainability.
- Strong Lead-level backend or platform engineering experience (required).
- Experience independently delivering complex technical projects (required).
- Strong backend capability in Python or a comparable modern language such as Go, Rust, Java, or Scala (required).
- Comfortable learning new languages and systems quickly (required).
- Strong understanding of distributed systems, scalability, and architecture trade-offs (required).
- Experience with microservices, service boundaries, eventual consistency, data separation, or reliability engineering (required).
- Comfortable working across app-layer systems as well as platform or infrastructure concerns (required).
- Strong communication skills and the ability to work effectively across time zones (required).
- High ownership, strong judgement, and comfort operating in ambiguity (required).
- Salary of $180k-$200K.
- Flexible working and a fully supported home office setup.
Midnite is a sportsbook and online casino operator based in London, licensed by the UK Gambling Commission and in Ireland. It began as an esports betting brand and has grown into a mainstream sports betting operator, becoming front-of-shirt sponsor of Wolverhampton Wanderers for the 2026/27 season, with plans to enter Canada.