Lead Backend Engineer - AI & Back Office
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MidniteSports Betting and Gaming
Remote UKFull-TimeLead
Salary not disclosed
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Job Details
- Experience
- 7+ years
- Required Skills
- PostgreSQLPythonCI/CD
Requirements
- 7+ years of backend engineering experience
- Experience operating at a senior or lead level
- Experience leading or mentoring engineers in a hands-on technical leadership capacity
- Has built internal platforms, back office systems, or operational tooling
- Professional experience integrating LLMs or AI APIs into production environments
- Solid understanding of databases (PostgreSQL or similar)
- Strong system design instincts across scalable, reliable backend services
- Strong proficiency in Python (or another backend language with willingness to learn Python)
- Cloud, deployment, and production engineering fundamentals
- Experience with CI/CD, observability, and infrastructure in modern environments
- Strong ownership, product thinking, and a bias toward delivery
- Communicates clearly with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
Responsibilities
- Design and build scalable backend systems for Midnite’s internal back office platform
- Lead and mentor a small team of engineers while remaining hands-on in delivery
- Write production code and use AI-assisted development approaches to accelerate execution
- Productionise and deploy AI-powered tools for engineering and business use cases
- Explore and apply technologies such as LLM APIs, agents, MCP servers, and RAG-style patterns where they create real value
- Collaborate closely with Product to shape requirements, technical solutions, and delivery plans
- Work with internal stakeholders to understand operational pain points and turn them into effective tooling
- Define architecture, engineering standards, and best practices for a new team and platform
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