Senior Backend Engineer at Launch Potato

Launch Potato, a digital media company, is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to enable their Data Science team in scaling machine learning innovation. This role involves supporting and deploying ML infrastructure across business-critical services.

Responsibilities include:

• Deploying machine learning pipelines and endpoint changes in partnership with the Data Science team
• Maintaining and improving backend services, focusing on reliability and performance
• Troubleshooting and resolving production issues across Launch Potato services
• Standing up and maintaining infrastructure using Terraform, ECS, and Lambda in a containerized AWS environment
• Participating in code reviews and delivering maintainable, testable code
• Suggesting improvements based on knowledge of team workflows and Launch Potato’s product ecosystem

Requirements:

• 4+ years of professional development experience using Python and deploying backend systems using Python frameworks like Django or FastAPI
• 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)
• Comfortable contributing ideas, giving peer feedback via pull requests, and driving technical improvements autonomously

What Launch Potato Offers:

• Opportunity to work in a profitable, high-growth company
• Profit-sharing bonus
• Competitive benefits