Senior Backend Platform Engineer — Remote

Midnite; Australia; Remote; AUD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Home office setup

Job summary

Midnite is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to evolve the systems powering our betting and gaming platform. You will work on core platform components, scaling across markets and regions while aligning with Australia team and global Platform group.

You’ll own design and implementation of backend services, improve boundaries, reliability, deployment, and observability, and drive high-ownership technical projects in a fast-moving, ambiguous environment.

Qualifications

• Strong senior-level backend or platform engineering experience.
• Experience delivering complex technical projects independently.
• Backend capability in Python or Go/Rust/Java/Scala.
• Comfortable learning new languages quickly.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, scalability, and architecture trade-offs.
• Experience with microservices, service boundaries, eventual consistency, data separation, or reliability engineering.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and improve backend and platform systems to 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 support from the team on deeper infrastructure areas where needed.
• 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.

Skills

Python

Go

Rust

Java

Scala

Distributed systems

Microservices

Ownership

Async communication

Time-zone communication

Tools

Docker

PostgreSQL

Terraform

SQS

Kafka

Notion

Slack

Linear

Job description

Midnite is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to evolve the systems powering our betting and gaming platform. You will work on core platform components, scaling across markets and regions while aligning with Australia team and global Platform group.

You’ll own design and implementation of backend services, improve boundaries, reliability, deployment, and observability, and drive high-ownership technical projects in a fast-moving, ambiguous environment.