Senior Backend Engineer
Midnite is looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to help evolve the systems that power its platform as it scales across markets, starting with a launch in Canada. This senior individual contributor role focuses on working close to the core of the product platform, understanding how systems fit together, improving boundaries and reliability, and building the technical foundations that help teams move faster and safer.
The engineer will work across backend and platform systems, partnering with the wider global Platform group. Responsibilities include working on service boundaries, data separation, interfaces, reliability, deployment, and scalability. This role is designed 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.
- 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 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 Canada team.
- Bring pragmatic judgement to technical trade-offs, balancing speed, reliability, and maintainability.
- Strong senior-level backend or platform engineering experience (required)
- Experience independently delivering complex technical projects (required)
- Strong backend capability in Python, or a comparable modern language (Go, Rust, Java, Scala) with the ability to ramp on Python 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 / infrastructure concerns (required)
- Strong written communication and the ability to work effectively across time zones (required)
- High ownership, strong judgement, and comfort operating in ambiguity (required)
- Private healthcare coverage
- 33 days annual leave, including public holidays, with additional tenure-based increases
- Flexible working
- Fully supported home office setup
- Employer-matched RRSP pension plan with a 3% company match
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.