Senior Backend Engineer at Launch Potato

Launch Potato, a digital media company, is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to join their international team. This role is pivotal in enabling the Data Science team to scale machine learning innovation by supporting and deploying ML infrastructure across business-critical services. The Senior Backend Engineer will maintain and improve backend services, troubleshoot production issues, and contribute to continuous deployment pipelines.

Role Involves:

• Deploying machine learning pipelines and endpoint changes.
• Identifying and removing backend bottlenecks.
• Maintaining and improving backend services.
• Troubleshooting and resolving production issues.
• Maintaining infrastructure using tools like Terraform, ECS, and Lambda.
• Participating in code reviews and promoting best practices.
• Suggesting improvements in tooling, deployment, or infrastructure based on team workflows and LP’s product ecosystem.

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.

What Launch Potato Offers:

• A compensation package includes a base salary and profit-sharing bonus.
• Competitive benefits.