Lead Backend Engineer at Launch Potato

Launch Potato, a digital media company, is seeking a Lead Backend Engineer. The successful candidate will enable the company’s Data Science team to scale machine learning innovation by supporting and deploying ML infrastructure across business-critical services. This role is based in Manaus, Brazil, and offers remote work.

Role Involves:

• Deploying machine learning pipelines and endpoint changes.
• Identifying and removing backend bottlenecks.
• Maintaining and improving backend services.
• Troubleshooting and resolving production issues.
• Maintaining infrastructure using tools like Terraform, ECS, and Lambda.
• Contributing to continuous deployment pipelines and improve CI/CD workflows.
• Participating in and leading code reviews.

Requirements:

• 4+ years of professional development experience using Python.
• Experience with containerized Python/Django (or FastAPI) services, including deployment on AWS.
• Experience collaborating with Data Science teams and deploying ML endpoints to production.
• Proficiency in troubleshooting production bugs in systems with limited QA support.
• Strong grasp of SQL databases, CI/CD (especially CircleCI), and infrastructure as code (Terraform preferred).
• Comfortable contributing ideas, giving peer feedback via pull requests, and driving technical improvements autonomously.

Launch Potato Offers:

• Base salary according to market rates.
• Profit-sharing bonus.
• Competitive benefits.