Engineering Lead – Sports Platform

🔥 23 minutes ago

🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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Midnite

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

201 - 500 employees

Founded 2015

🎲 Gambling

👥 B2C

Gambling • B2C

Midnite is a consumer-focused digital betting company that operates a modern sports betting and online casino app. Positioning itself against legacy bookmakers, Midnite emphasizes a fresh, user-friendly mobile experience for sportsbook and casino players, aiming to modernize and improve how fans engage with betting products. The company markets directly to consumers and highlights team-driven product and experience design to attract and retain players.

📋 Description

• Set pragmatic technical direction and lead system design across clients, APIs, services, data, infrastructure and integrations • Create PRs, write production code and release features • Contribute technical designs, investigations and reviews • Work with Product and Design to turn ambiguous opportunities into clear milestones, small deliverables and frequent releases • Formally manage three to four engineers through expectations, one-to-ones, feedback, performance management and development support • Develop engineers through design discussions, reviews, pairing, debugging and production incidents • Champion effective testing, observability, safe releases and strong production feedback loops • Make technical trade-offs, keep risks visible and improve systems following production problems • Use AI responsibly and contribute to hiring, onboarding and shared engineering practices • Collaborate with Trading to improve sportsbook tools and operational efficiency

🎯 Requirements

• Significant backend engineering experience, including time operating at senior or lead level • Deep backend expertise with a full-stack, systems-thinking mindset across clients, APIs, services, data, infrastructure and operations • Strong Python skills, or experience with another modern backend language and willingness to learn Python • Experience setting technical direction and designing, delivering and operating reliable systems • Experience formally managing engineers, or strong evidence of readiness to own one-to-ones, feedback, performance and development for a team of three to four • Ability to challenge assumptions constructively and break ambiguous, complex work into simple, safe deliverables • Solid database and production-engineering fundamentals, including AWS, CI/CD and observability • Clear and energetic communication • Must be currently based in the UK • Full right to work in the UK • Must not require sponsorship to work in the UK

🏖️ Benefits

• Private health insurance with zero excess, including optical cover and optional dental • Income protection • Tenure holiday policy: an extra two days leave after three years, increasing to 30 days annually after five years • Flexible working • Fully supported home office setup • Nursery salary sacrifice scheme • Salary sacrifice schemes for tech and holidays • Retail discounts and subscription perks • Quarterly team socials