Lead Backend Engineer at Launch Potato

Launch Potato is seeking a Lead Backend Engineer to enable their Data Science team to scale machine learning innovation. The ideal candidate will support and deploy ML infrastructure across business-critical services.This role involves maintaining and improving backend services, focusing on reliability, performance, and ownership clarity. The engineer will troubleshoot and resolve production issues across Launch Potato services and contribute to continuous deployment pipelines.Responsibilities include:

• Deploying machine learning pipeline and endpoint changes
• Identifying and removing backend bottlenecks
• Maintaining and improving backend services
• Troubleshooting and debugging production issues
• Standing up and maintaining infrastructure using Terraform, ECS, and Lambda
• Participating in code reviews
• Delivering maintainable and testable code

Requirements:

• 4+ years of professional development experience using Python
• Experience with containerized Python/Django (or FastAPI) services
• Proven track record collaborating with Data Science teams
• Proficiency in troubleshooting production bugs
• Strong grasp of SQL databases, CI/CD (especially CircleCI), and infrastructure as code (Terraform preferred)

The role offers:

• A base salary
• Profit-sharing bonus
• Competitive benefits