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Lead Backend Engineer

1 month ago
United Kingdom
Full-time
Lead
Backend Engineer
Software Development
AWS Docker Flask Linear Notion PostgreSQL Pytest Python Terraform
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Midnite

Midnite

Midnite is a next generation betting platform that offers sports betting, casino games, and live dealer options, focusing on esports, sports, and gaming to bring fans together and enhance their interactions through the thrill of winning money.

Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure
11-50
Founded 2015
$18M raised
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Description

  • Own and drive architectural decisions across the platform with a focus on uptime, resilience, scalability, and performance.
  • Lead technical design for complex cross-team projects, particularly those touching core infrastructure or platform reliability.
  • Identify and implement improvements to deployment pipelines, observability, performance monitoring, and systems architecture.
  • Anticipate failure points, plan for scaling, and ensure the platform remains robust as usage grows.
  • Guide adoption of best practices in platform engineering, reliability, testing, and operational excellence.
  • Work with partners and vendors to integrate third-party products in a safe, repeatable, and scalable way.
  • Act as the technical escalation point to unblock senior engineers and resolve cross-team issues.
  • Regularly contribute code, perform reviews, and ship production changes as part of the team’s daily delivery.
  • Manage and develop a small team of engineers, mentor broader engineering team members, facilitate technical planning, and run technical interviews to shape the Platform function.

Requirements

  • 7+ years of engineering experience with deep expertise in Python and cloud-based systems.
  • Proven experience leading or managing engineers in platform, backend, or infrastructure-focused roles.
  • Strong background building resilient, scalable, and high-performance distributed systems.
  • Experience with AWS and technologies such as Flask, Pytest, Mypy, Docker, PostgreSQL, SQS, S3, and Terraform.
  • Experience deploying frequently (daily) and improving deployment pipelines and observability.
  • Demonstrated impact improving reliability, performance, and the developer experience.
  • Hands-on technical leadership — able to dive into code and architecture while guiding others.
  • Strong communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.
  • Experience integrating third-party systems at scale and acting as the technical lead for those relationships.
  • Familiarity with modern delivery practices and a strong appreciation for quality, testing, and stability.
  • Must be based in the UK.

Benefits

  • Competitive salary of £115,000–£130,000.
  • Comprehensive zero-excess health insurance including optical and dental coverage.
  • Income protection plan.
  • 25 paid holidays per year plus generous paid maternity, paternity, and adoption leave.
  • Flexible working and provision of home-office equipment for a comfortable, ergonomic setup.
  • Nursery salary-sacrifice scheme to pay child’s nursery fees from salary.
  • Salary-sacrifice schemes for purchasing the latest tech, household items, and mobile tech.
  • Internal and external learning opportunities, mentorship programs, and transparent compensation with clear team bandings.

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