Engineering Lead - Core Group

Midnite; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private health insurance

Income protection

Tenure holiday policy with extended 30

Flexible working

Home office setup support

Nursery salary sacrifice

Salary sacrifice schemes

Retail discounts

Team socials

Job summary

Midnite is a next-generation sports betting and gaming platform seeking an Engineering Lead with deep backend experience and a systems-thinking mindset. You will code, design architecture, and set technical direction while guiding a small team.

Collaborate with Product and Design to translate complex problems into reliable, incremental releases. You’ll mentor engineers, drive quality through testing and observability, and help the team move fast without sacrificing stability.

Qualifications

• Significant backend engineering experience at senior or lead level.
• Strong Python skills or willingness to learn Python.
• Experience setting technical direction and delivering reliable systems.
• Proven ability to manage engineers, provide feedback, and support development.
• Solid AWS, CI/CD and observability fundamentals.

Responsibilities

• Technical direction: lead system design across clients, APIs, services and data.
• Hands-on engineering: write production code and release features.
• Product delivery: translate opportunities into milestones and releases.
• People leadership: manage a team of three to six engineers.
• Coaching: mentor engineers through design discussions and reviews.
• Engineering quality: champion testing and safe releases.
• Technical judgement: assess trade-offs and mitigate risks.
• Wider contribution: contribute to hiring, onboarding, and practices.

Skills

Backend engineering

Full-stack mindset

Python

AWS

CI/CD

Observability

System design

Team leadership

Technical direction

Tools

AWS

CI/CD

Observability tooling

Job description

Why Midnite?

Midnite is a next-generation sports betting and gaming platform built for a new wave of players.

We combine sharp product thinking, bold brand, and fast execution to create experiences that feel modern, intuitive, and built for how people actually play today.

Over 400,000 players have already made the move, and we’re only just getting started.

We’re a high-performance team operating at pace. High ownership. Constant iteration. No hiding behind processes. We move quickly, test relentlessly, and turn ambitious ideas into real impact. If you’re driven, creative, and thrive in fast-moving environments where you can shape meaningful outcomes - keep reading.

Not your grandad’s bookie.

The Core Group owns the foundations of the customer lifecycle - from registration and identity verification to payments, withdrawals and account management. We build customer-facing products, critical backend services and operational tooling across KYC, fraud, safer gambling, compliance and new-market launches, helping Midnite grow securely and reliably.

We’re looking for an Engineering Lead to provide hands‑on technical leadership while formally managing and developing a team of three to six engineers. This is not a conventional Engineering Manager role or a purely technical lead position: you’ll create PRs, write production code and release features while setting technical direction and helping the whole team perform at its best.

You’ll bring deep backend experience and a full-stack, systems-thinking mindset, understanding how clients, APIs, services, data, infrastructure, operations and third‑party integrations work together. You’ll work closely with Product and Design to turn complex or ambiguous problems into simple, reliable experiences delivered incrementally. Your impact will be measured not only by what you build, but by the quality of the team’s technical decisions, delivery and growth.

You will:

• Technical direction: Set pragmatic technical direction and lead system design across clients, APIs, services, data, infrastructure and integrations.


• Hands‑on engineering: Create PRs, write production code and release features, alongside contributing technical designs, investigations and reviews.


• Product delivery: Work with Product and Design to turn ambiguous opportunities into clear milestones, small deliverables and frequent releases.


• People leadership: Manage three to six engineers through clear expectations, one‑to‑ones, feedback, performance management and development support.


• Coaching: Develop engineers through design discussions, reviews, pairing, debugging and production incidents without becoming a bottleneck.


• Engineering quality: Champion effective testing, observability, safe releases and strong production feedback loops.


• Technical judgement: Make sensible trade‑offs, keep risks visible and help the team improve systems following production problems.


• Wider contribution: Use AI responsibly and contribute to hiring, onboarding and shared engineering practices.

The next Midniter:

• 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 a willingness to learn Python.


• Experience setting technical direction and designing, delivering and operating reliable systems.


• Experience in formally managing engineers, or strong evidence of readiness to own one‑to‑ones, feedback, performance and development for a team of three to six.


• Challenge assumptions constructively, helping Product and Design find simpler or more effective ways to achieve the intended outcome and the ability to break ambiguous, complex work into simple, safe deliverables.


• Solid database and production‑engineering fundamentals, including AWS, CI/CD and observability.


• You communicate with energy and clarity, bring others into technical discussions, and help create momentum across the team.

Winnings

• Private health insurance with zero excess, including optical cover and optional dental.


• Income protection to protect your earnings and give you peace of mind.


• Tenure holiday policy. After three years you receive an extra two days leave, increasing to 30 days annually after five years.


• Flexible working and a fully supported home office setup so you can do your best work from home.


• Nursery salary sacrifice scheme helping parents save thousands each year on nursery fees.


• Salary sacrifice schemes for tech and holidays so you can spread the cost of the things you want.


• Retail discounts and subscription perks across a wide range of brands.


• Quarterly team socials to connect, celebrate and have fun together.

At Midnite, we’re committed to creating equal opportunities for everyone. We actively strive to build balanced teams that reflect the diversity of our communities, including ethnic minorities, people with disabilities, the LGBTQIA+ community, and all genders.

We aim to provide an inclusive and supportive interview experience for all candidates. If you require any reasonable adjustments, please let us know in advance so we can ensure you feel comfortable and set up for success.