Senior Backend Engineer at Launch Potato

Launch Potato is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to enable their Data Science team to scale machine learning innovation. The successful candidate will support and deploy ML infrastructure across business-critical services.

Responsibilities:

• Deploy machine learning pipelines and endpoint changes in partnership with the Data Science team.
• Maintain and improve backend services, focusing on reliability and performance.
• Troubleshoot and resolve production issues across Launch Potato's services.
• Stand up and maintain infrastructure using tools like Terraform, ECS, and Lambda in a containerized AWS environment.
• Participate in and lead code reviews.
• Understand how backend systems connect to user-facing goals and company OKRs.

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.

The role offers:

• Base salary
• Profit-sharing bonus
• Competitive benefits