Lead Backend Engineer at Launch Potato

Launch Potato is seeking a Lead Backend Engineer to support and deploy machine learning infrastructure across business-critical services. The Lead Backend Engineer will collaborate with Data Science teams, deploy ML endpoints to production, and troubleshoot production bugs. The role involves maintaining and improving backend services, ensuring reliability and performance, and participating in code reviews to promote best practices. Responsibilities:

• Deploy machine learning pipeline and endpoint changes.
• Identify and remove backend bottlenecks.
• Maintain and improve backend services.
• Troubleshoot and resolve production issues.
• Stand up and maintain infrastructure using Terraform, ECS, and Lambda in a containerized AWS environment.
• Contribute to continuous deployment pipelines and improve CI/CD workflows.
• Participate in code reviews.
• Deliver maintainable and testable code.
• Suggest engineering improvements or inefficiencies.

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).

Launch Potato offers:

• Profit-sharing bonus
• Competitive benefits