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 Lead Backend Engineer will be responsible for supporting and deploying ML infrastructure across business-critical services.This 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.
• Participating in code reviews.
• Delivering maintainable and testable code.

Requirements include:

• 4+ years of professional development experience using Python.
• Experience with containerized Python/Django (or FastAPI) services.
• Experience deploying ML endpoints to production.
• Proficiency in troubleshooting production bugs.
• Strong grasp of SQL databases, CI/CD, and infrastructure as code.

Launch Potato offers:

• Profit-sharing bonus.
• Competitive benefits.
• Opportunity to make an impact in a profitable, high-growth company.