Lead Platform Engineer - Canada

15 hours, 55 minutes ago
Full-time
Lead
Software Development
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

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, especially those affecting core infrastructure and platform reliability.
  • Improve deployment pipelines, observability, performance monitoring, and systems architecture.
  • Anticipate failure points, plan for scale, and keep the platform robust as usage grows.
  • Guide best practices in platform engineering, reliability, testing, and operational excellence.
  • Work with partners and vendors to integrate external products safely, repeatably, and at scale.
  • Support senior engineers by unblocking cross-team issues and serving as a technical escalation point.
  • Contribute code, reviews, and production changes as part of daily delivery.
  • Manage and develop a small team of engineers and coach them day to day.
  • Mentor engineers across the broader team and help strengthen technical depth and delivery capability.

Requirements

  • 7+ years of engineering experience with deep expertise in Python or an equivalent modern language such as Go or Rust.
  • Experience with cloud-based systems.
  • Proven experience leading or managing engineers in a platform, backend, or infrastructure-focused role.
  • Strong background in building resilient, scalable, high-performance distributed systems.
  • Ability to break down ambiguous and complex problems into clear plans and milestones.
  • Demonstrated impact improving reliability, performance, and developer experience.
  • Hands-on technical leadership with the ability to contribute to 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 focus on quality, testing, and stability.

Benefits

  • Private healthcare coverage.
  • Virtual GP access for quick medical advice.
  • Pension scheme.
  • Tenure-based holiday increases, including an extra two days after three years and 30 days annually after five years.
  • Flexible working.
  • Fully supported home office setup.
  • Inclusive interview experience with reasonable adjustments available on request.

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