Senior Backend & Cloud Infra. Engineer - Python+AWS (LATAM) at Lateral Group

Remote - Multiple locations

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Lateral Group is a globally distributed design and technology company with over 20 years of experience launching bold ventures and transforming businesses. The team is focused on quality, bias for action, and continuous improvement. The Senior Backend & Cloud Infra Engineer role focuses on building scalable backend systems and cloud infrastructure using Python and AWS, with collaboration across cross‑functional teams. The position is fully remote and emphasizes autonomy, ownership, and high‑impact delivery.

Requirements

Experience

  • 5+ years in backend engineering

Skills

  • Python
  • AWS services
  • SQL (PostgreSQL)
  • Docker
  • ECS
  • Kubernetes
  • Terraform
  • CloudFormation
  • CDK
  • API development
  • batch job design
  • CI/CD pipelines
  • software design principles
  • communication
  • async collaboration
  • problem solving

Languages

  • English

Responsibilities

  • Build and maintain reliable, scalable backend systems with a focus on Python, AWS, and cloud-native infrastructure.
  • Design and implement APIs and batch processing jobs that serve real-world products.
  • Help architect and evolve cloud infrastructure (primarily on AWS) for availability, observability, and cost-efficiency.
  • Write clean, well-tested code that’s easy to understand, easy to debug, and built to last.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams including ML and product to ship high-impact features and systems.
  • Automate away repetitive tasks and eliminate bottlenecks with thoughtful scripting and service design.
  • Support infrastructure-as-code efforts and deployment pipelines (Terraform, CDK, etc.).
  • Work closely with senior engineers to make thoughtful trade-offs around performance, reliability, security, and maintainability.
  • Own features from spec to production, with autonomy and support.

Technologies

PythonAWSPostgreSQLDockerECSKubernetesTerraformCloudFormationCDKCI/CD pipelines

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