Engineering Lead - Core Group

Midnite · United Kingdomlead

In short

▸Liderazgo técnico hands-on en un equipo de ingeniería de núcleo para una plataforma de apuestas deportivas en crecimiento.
▸Escribes código de producción, defines arquitectura y lideras a 3-6 ingenieros con enfoque en calidad y entrega continua.
▸No es solo gestión: debes contribuir con PRs, diseño técnico y resolver incidentes en entornos críticos.

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What they ask for

✓Experiencia significativa en ingeniería backend, incluyendo roles de senior o lead.
✓Experto en backend con visión full-stack y sistémica (APIs, servicios, datos, infraestructura).
✓Habilidades sólidas en Python o experiencia con otro lenguaje backend moderno y disposición para aprender Python.
✓Experiencia en liderar técnicamente y gestionar formalmente a 3-6 ingenieros.
✓Capacidad para transformar problemas ambiguos en entregas simples y seguras.
✓Conocimiento práctico de AWS, CI/CD y observabilidad en producción.

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🚀 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.

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