Senior Backend Engineer at Launch Potato

Launch Potato, a digital media company, is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to join their team. This role is based in Sao Paulo, Brazil and is remote. The Senior Backend Engineer will enable Launch Potato’s Data Science team to scale machine learning innovation by supporting and deploying ML infrastructure across business-critical services.

Responsibilities include:

• 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.
• Contribute to continuous deployment pipelines and improve CI/CD workflows using tools like CircleCI.
• Participate in and lead thoughtful code reviews.
• Deliver maintainable and testable code.
• Proactively suggest engineering improvements or inefficiencies.

Requirements:

• 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.