Senior Backend Engineer

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Midnite

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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

• Own the full backend lifecycle — Design, develop, test, monitor and maintain backend services for our systems. • Build the APIs that power the experience — Create clean, efficient, and well-documented APIs for our web and mobile applications. • Champion code quality — Write high-quality, maintainable code with a focus on reliability, scalability, and performance. • Raise the engineering bar — Participate in code reviews and help uphold the quality and consistency of the codebase. • Shape technical direction — Contribute to architectural decisions and broader technical strategy. • Collaborate across teams and partners — Work closely with engineers, product teams, and external vendors to integrate third-party systems seamlessly. • Ship with confidence and speed — Deliver features and improvements in a continuous deployment environment. • Keep us ahead of the curve — Stay current with industry trends, best practices, and emerging technologies.

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of professional backend engineering experience building and operating production systems at scale. • Strong proficiency in Python (or another backend language with willingness to learn Python) • Strong experience designing, building, and operating event-driven architectures using messaging and streaming technologies such as Kafka. • Proven track record of designing, delivering, and owning significant backend systems from conception through to production. • Strong understanding of system design, distributed systems, scalability, reliability, performance, and observability. • Experience working with PostgreSQL and caching technologies such as Redis. • Comfortable building and operating cloud-native applications on AWS. • Demonstrated ability to take ownership of problems end-to-end, driving solutions from discovery and design through implementation, deployment, and ongoing operation. • Strong collaboration and communication skills, with experience working closely with product, design, and engineering stakeholders. • A pragmatic approach to software engineering, balancing technical excellence with delivering value to customers.