Lead Backend Engineer at Launch Potato

Launch Potato, a digital media company, is seeking a Lead Backend Engineer to enable their Data Science team to scale machine learning innovation. The role involves supporting and deploying ML infrastructure across business-critical services. The Lead Backend Engineer will maintain and improve backend services, troubleshoot production issues, 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 resolving production issues.
• Standing up and maintaining infrastructure using tools like Terraform, ECS, and Lambda.
• Participating in code reviews.

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.
• Strong grasp of SQL databases, CI/CD (especially CircleCI), and infrastructure as code (Terraform preferred).
• Comfortable contributing ideas and driving technical improvements.

Launch Potato offers:

• Profit-sharing bonus.
• Competitive benefits.