Senior Platform Engineer

🕒 August 7

🇨🇦 Canada – Remote

💵 $170k - $220k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🏗️ Platform 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

• Evolve the systems that power Midnite as it scales across markets, starting with the Canada launch • Design, build, and improve backend and platform systems supporting Midnite’s core sports betting and gaming product • Work on scalability, reliability, service isolation, and regional readiness • Define clean boundaries and interfaces across services and data flows • Contribute to multi-region systems and future market expansion • Improve observability, deployment practices, performance, and operational maturity • Work across app-layer systems and platform foundations • Contribute production code, code reviews, and technical design • Identify failure points, reduce risk, and improve platform resilience • Independently drive complex technical projects from high-level direction through delivery • Partner with the Platform team on architecture and implementation decisions • Collaborate with product engineering teams when platform changes affect product systems • Communicate risks and blockers clearly across time zones • Help create a high-ownership engineering culture in the Canada team

🎯 Requirements

• Strong senior-level backend or platform engineering experience • Experience independently delivering complex technical projects • Strong backend capability in Python, or a comparable modern language such as Go, Rust, Java, or Scala, with ability to ramp on Python quickly • Strong understanding of distributed systems, scalability, and architecture trade-offs • Experience with microservices, service boundaries, eventual consistency, data separation, or reliability engineering • Comfortable working across application-layer systems and platform/infrastructure concerns • Strong written communication and ability to work effectively across time zones • High ownership, strong judgement, and comfort operating in ambiguity • Experience with Flask or FastAPI, Pytest, Mypy, Docker, PostgreSQL, SQS or Kafka, S3, and Terraform • Experience with AWS-hosted systems • Must have the right to work in Canada • Must be currently based in Canada • Must address current or future Canadian work sponsorship requirements

🏖️ Benefits

• Private healthcare coverage to support your physical health and wellbeing • 33 days annual leave, including public holidays • Additional tenure-based annual leave increases: 2 extra days after 3 years and 3 further days after 5 years of service • Flexible working • Fully supported home office setup • Employer-matched RRSP pension plan with a 3% company match • Benefits offering to be reviewed and enhanced as the local Canadian entity evolves • Inclusive and supportive interview experience • Reasonable adjustments and accommodations during the recruitment process