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Launch Potato is on a mission to build and scale digital brands by solving complex problems in product development, engineering, data science, creative, and more. Launch Potato wan
Python Engineer
Location
Latin America
Posted
125 days ago
Salary
0
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Python Engineer
Launch Potato
• Develop, deliver, document and support robust and stable backend application features, third-party integrations and infrastructure across a breadth of services and environments. • Support the development and implementation of backend features and integrations across both legacy and new systems. • Collaborate with senior engineers and stakeholders to understand requirements and deliver solutions aligned with business needs. • Contribute to feasibility discussions and support early-stage prototyping with guidance from peers. • Implement backend functionality with attention to performance, readability, and maintainability. • Follow team patterns and contribute to test coverage, including basic post-deployment and load testing scripts. • Escalate reliability or performance concerns and partner with senior engineers to resolve them. • Help maintain and improve application monitoring by setting up or adjusting alerts, dashboards, or logs. • Participate in debugging and resolving production issues, with support from senior team members. • Document fixes and share learnings to strengthen team awareness and incident response. • Support infrastructure tasks using established tools (e.g., Terraform, ECS, Lambda) under guidance. • Assist in maintaining CI/CD pipelines and participate in identifying workflow improvements. • Write maintainable, testable code using frameworks like Django and testing tools such as Pytest. • Engage in code reviews with a learning mindset and contribute to a culture of quality and shared ownership. • Pair with teammates to troubleshoot issues and improve knowledge of system architecture. • Build awareness of how backend systems connect to product goals and customer outcomes. • Share observations that could improve team workflows, code quality, or product performance. • Seek clarity on priorities and outcomes to ensure engineering effort supports business value.
Job Requirements
- Experience with containerized Python/Django (or FastAPI) services, including deployment on AWS.
- Proficiency in troubleshooting production bugs in systems with limited QA support.
- Strong grasp of SQL databases, CI/CD (especially CircleCI), containerized solutions, and infrastructure as code (Terraform preferred).
- Comfortable contributing ideas, giving peer feedback via pull requests, and driving technical improvements autonomously.
- 3+ years of professional development experience using Python and deploying backend systems using Python frameworks like Django or FastAPI.
Benefits
- Flexible work arrangements
- Professional development
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