Lead Platform Engineer

About the role

🚀 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 Role

Title: Lead Platform Engineer

Team: Platform Engineering

Location: Remote / Australia

Salary: $180k-$200K

We’re looking for a Lead Platform Engineer to help evolve the systems that power Midnite as we scale across markets and regions.

This is a senior individual contributor role for someone who enjoys working close to the core of a product platform: understanding how systems fit together, improving boundaries and reliability, and building the technical foundations that help teams move faster and safer.

You’ll work across backend and platform systems, partnering closely with the Australia team and the wider global Platform group. You will not just be building product features; you’ll be working on the systems underneath them: service boundaries, data separation, interfaces, reliability, deployment, and scalability.

This role suits someone who can take high-level direction, work independently through ambiguity, and drive complex technical projects forward without needing every detail defined upfront.

Technical 💻

Our platform is primarily built in Python and hosted on AWS, incorporating Flask/FastAPI, Pytest, Mypy, Docker, PostgreSQL, SQS/Kafka, S3, and Terraform. We deploy daily.

As a Lead Platform Engineer, you will:

- Design, build, and improve backend and platform systems that 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.

Collaboration & Ownership 🤝