Senior Backend Engineer at Launch Potato

Launch Potato is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to enable the company’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 work with containerized Python/Django (or FastAPI) services, deploy ML endpoints to production, and troubleshoot production bugs. They will also be responsible for maintaining infrastructure using tools such as Terraform, ECS, and Lambda in a containerized AWS environment.

Responsibilities:

• Deploy machine learning pipeline 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 services.
• Stand up and maintain infrastructure using tools like Terraform, ECS, and Lambda.
• Participate in code reviews and promote best practices.

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:

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