Lead Backend Engineer at Launch Potato

Launch Potato is seeking a Lead Backend Engineer to join their team. This role is focused on enabling the Data Science team to scale machine learning innovation across business-critical services. The Lead Backend Engineer will be responsible for deploying machine learning pipelines and endpoint changes, maintaining backend services, and improving CI/CD workflows.

The position is remote and based out of Rosario, Argentina.

Responsibilities include:

• Deploying machine learning pipeline and endpoint changes in partnership with the Data Science team.
• Maintaining and improving backend services.
• Troubleshooting and resolving production issues.
• Standing up and maintaining infrastructure using tools like Terraform, ECS, and Lambda.
• Participating in code reviews and promoting best practices.
• Suggesting improvements in tooling, deployment, or infrastructure.

Requirements include:

• 4+ years of professional development experience using Python.
• Experience with containerized Python/Django (or FastAPI) services, including deployment on AWS.
• Proven track record 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.