Remote Frontend Jobs

This role will play a central part in how Midnite scales internal operations and defines the practical use of AI across engineering and the wider business. You ll lead the build of a greenfield back office platform while helping shape how AI is used to improve workflows, decision-making, and efficiency across the company. You ll combine technical leadership with hands-on engineering, guiding a small team while building production systems that have direct business impact.

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.

Requirements

The next Midniter

• Brings 7+ years of backend engineering experience, including time operating at a senior or lead level.
• Has experience leading or mentoring engineers in a hands-on technical leadership capacity.
• Has built internal platforms, back office systems, or operational tooling.
• Has professional experience integrating LLMs or AI APIs into production environments.
• Has a solid understanding of databases (PostgreSQL or similar).
• Has strong system design instincts across scalable, reliable backend services.
• Has a strong proficiency in Python (or another backend language with willingness to learn Python).
• Has cloud, deployment, and production engineering fundamentals, including CI/CD, observability, and infrastructure in modern environments.
• Brings strong ownership, product thinking, and a bias toward delivery.
• Communicates clearly with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.