Lead Backend Engineer at Launch Potato

Launch Potato is seeking a Lead Backend Engineer to join their dynamic team. This role is pivotal in enabling the company's Data Science team to scale machine learning innovation by supporting and deploying ML infrastructure across business-critical services.

Role Involves:

• Deploying machine learning pipelines and endpoint changes.
• Maintaining and improving backend services, focusing on reliability and performance.
• Troubleshooting and resolving production issues across services.
• Maintaining infrastructure using tools like Terraform, ECS, and Lambda.
• Participating in code reviews and promoting best practices.
• Suggesting engineering improvements based on knowledge of team workflows.

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).
• Comfort contributing ideas, giving peer feedback, and driving technical improvements autonomously.

What Launch Potato Offers:

• A compensation package includes a base salary and profit-sharing bonus.
• Competitive benefits
• Opportunity to work in a performance-driven, high-growth company.

This role is a remote opportunity based in Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico.