Senior Backend Engineer

🕒 July 28

🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

💵 £90k - £110k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 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

• Design, develop, test, monitor, and maintain backend services • Create clean, efficient, and well-documented APIs for web and mobile applications • Write high-quality, maintainable code focused on reliability, scalability, and performance • Participate in code reviews and uphold codebase quality and consistency • Contribute to architectural decisions and broader technical strategy • Collaborate with engineers, product teams, and external vendors to integrate third-party systems • Deliver features and improvements in a continuous deployment environment • 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, 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 • Pragmatic approach to software engineering, balancing technical excellence with delivering value to customers