Senior Backend Engineer at Launch Potato

Launch Potato, a digital media company, is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer. The ideal candidate will enable Launch Potato’s Data Science team to scale machine learning innovation by supporting and deploying ML infrastructure across business-critical services. This role involves maintaining and improving backend services, troubleshooting production issues, and contributing to continuous deployment pipelines.

The Senior Backend Engineer will collaborate with the Data Science team, participate in code reviews, and approach projects with a product-oriented mindset.

• 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.
• Participate in code reviews.

• 4+ years of professional development experience using Python.
• Experience with containerized Python/Django (or FastAPI) services.
• Proven track record collaborating with Data Science teams.
• Proficiency in troubleshooting production bugs.
• Strong grasp of SQL databases, CI/CD (especially CircleCI), and infrastructure as code (Terraform preferred).
• Comfortable contributing ideas and giving peer feedback.

• Profit-sharing bonus.
• Competitive benefits.