Senior Platform Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Canada.

📋 Description

• Enhance the systems that drive Midnite as it expands into various markets, beginning with the launch in Canada.

• Design, construct, and refine backend and platform systems that support Midnite’s fundamental sports betting and gaming product.

• Focus on scalability, reliability, service isolation, and regional preparedness.

• Establish clear boundaries and interfaces across services and data streams.

• Contribute to systems that span multiple regions and support future market growth.

• Enhance observability, deployment practices, performance, and operational maturity.

• Collaborate across app-layer systems and foundational platform elements.

• Contribute to production code, conduct code reviews, and engage in technical design.

• Identify failure points, mitigate risks, and bolster platform resilience.

• Take the lead on complex technical projects from high-level direction to successful delivery.

• Collaborate with the Platform team on architectural and implementation decisions.

• Work with product engineering teams to address platform changes that impact product systems.

• Clearly communicate risks and obstacles across different time zones.

• Assist in fostering a high-ownership engineering culture within the Canada team.

⛳️ Requirements

• Significant senior-level backend or platform engineering experience.

• Proven track record of independently delivering complex technical projects.

• Strong backend proficiency in Python or a similar modern programming language such as Go, Rust, Java, or Scala, with the capability to quickly adapt to Python.

• In-depth understanding of distributed systems, scalability, and architectural trade-offs.

• Experience with microservices, service boundaries, eventual consistency, data separation, or reliability engineering.

• Comfortable working across application-layer systems and platform/infrastructure aspects.

• Excellent written communication skills and the ability to work effectively across time zones.

• High level of ownership, sound judgment, and ability to operate in uncertain situations.

• Proficient in Flask or FastAPI, Pytest, Mypy, Docker, PostgreSQL, SQS or Kafka, S3, and Terraform.

• Experience with AWS-hosted environments.

• Must possess the right to work in Canada.

• Must currently reside in Canada.

• Must meet current or future work sponsorship requirements in Canada.

🏝️ Benefits

• Private healthcare coverage to promote your physical health and wellbeing.

• 33 days of annual leave, including public holidays.

• Additional tenure-based annual leave increases: an extra 2 days after 3 years and 3 more days after 5 years of service.

• Flexible working arrangements.

• Full support for home office setup.

• Employer-matched RRSP pension plan with a 3% company match.

• Benefits package to be reviewed and improved as the local Canadian entity develops.

• Inclusive and supportive interview process.

• Reasonable adjustments and accommodations available during the recruitment process.