[Hiring] Senior Platform Engineer @Midnite

Role Description

We’re looking for a Senior 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
• 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
• 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.

Qualifications

• Strong senior-level backend or platform engineering experience
• Experience independently delivering complex technical projects
• Strong backend capability in Python or a comparable modern language such as Go, Rust, Java, or Scala
• Comfortable learning new languages and systems quickly
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, scalability, and architecture trade-offs
• Experience with microservices, service boundaries, eventual consistency, data separation, or reliability engineering
• Comfortable working across app-layer systems as well as platform/infrastructure concerns
• Strong communication skills and the ability to work effectively across time zones
• High ownership, strong judgement, and comfort operating in ambiguity

Requirements

• 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

Benefits

• Flexible working and a fully supported home office setup so you can do your best work from home
• Join us at an exciting stage as we establish our presence in Australia
• We're investing in a great local employee experience and will continue to expand our benefits package as we grow