Senior Backend Engineer

Why Midnite?

Midnite is a next-generation sports betting and gaming platform built for a new wave of players.

We combine sharp product thinking, bold brand, and fast execution to create experiences that feel modern, intuitive, and built for how people actually play today.

Over 400,000 players have already made the move, and we’re only just getting started.

We’re a high-performance team operating at pace. High ownership. Constant iteration. No hiding behind processes. We move quickly, test relentlessly, and turn ambitious ideas into real impact. If you’re driven, creative, and thrive in fast-moving environments where you can shape meaningful outcomes - keep reading.

Not your grandad’s bookie.

The Role

Title: Senior Backend Engineer

Team: Platform Engineering

Location: Remote / Canada

Salary: CAD $170,000–$220,000, depending on experience

We're looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to help evolve the systems that power Midnite as we scale across markets, starting with our Canada launch.

This is a senior individual contributor role for someone who enjoys working close to the core of a product platform, understanding how systems fit together, improving boundaries and reliability, and building the technical foundations that help teams move faster and safer.

You’ll work across backend and platform systems, partnering with the wider global Platform group. You won't just build product features, you'll work on the systems underneath them: service boundaries, data separation, interfaces, reliability, deployment, and scalability.

This role suits someone who can take high level direction, work independently through ambiguity, and drive complex technical projects forward without needing every detail defined upfront.

What you'll work on in your first few months:

• Get deep into our existing services to understand boundaries, dependencies, and where isolation layers should sit.
• Contribute to the platform work behind Midnite's Canada launch, including data separation and regional readiness.
• Ship meaningful backend/platform improvements and start owning projects end to end.

Technical

Our platform is primarily built in Python and hosted on AWS, using Flask/FastAPI, Pytest, Mypy, Docker, PostgreSQL, SQS/Kafka, S3, and Terraform. We deploy daily.

As a Senior Platform Engineer, you will:

• 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 team support on deeper infrastructure areas.
• 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.

Collaboration & Ownership

You’ll collaborate with engineers across Canada, the UK, and Australia, so strong async communication and ownership are essential. Working hours overlap with those regions is limited, so we lean on clear written communication over synchronous meetings.

In this role, you will:

• Take high-level technical direction and independently drive work through to delivery.
• Partner with Sergio, 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 Canada team.
• Bring pragmatic judgement to technical trade-offs, balancing speed, reliability, and maintainability.

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