Senior Backend & Cloud Infra. Engineer PythonAWS (LATAM)

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Overview Lateral is a profitable, award-winning design and technology company with over 20 years of experience launching bold ventures and transforming businesses.

A globally distributed team of 200 experts united by a shared purpose: the continuous pursuit of quality.

Our clients come to us for results, quality and craft, and stay because we keep raising the bar.

We design and build great products with a bias for action and results, on time, on budget, with care for every detail.

What You’ll Do 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, debug, and maintain.

Collaborate with cross-functional teams including ML and product to ship high-impact features and systems.

Automate repetitive tasks and eliminate bottlenecks with scripting and thoughtful 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 to deliver great work.

What We’re Looking For 5 years of experience in backend engineering.

Strong proficiency in Python for building APIs, services, or batch processing jobs.

Solid experience with AWS services (e.g., ECS, S3, RDS, SQS, Lambda).

Proficiency in SQL databases (Postgres).

Experience with containerization (Docker, ECS, Kubernetes).

Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK).

Strong grasp of software design principles, API development, and data processing in Python.

Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and modern deployment practices.

Comfort owning systems end-to-end — from design to deployment to monitoring.

Quality mindset: clean code, good documentation, and thoughtful testing.

Clear communication, async collaboration, and proactive problem-solving.

Bonus Points Experience with DICOM frameworks (PyDICOM, SimpleITK, OsiriX, OHIF, Orthanc).

Performance-sensitive or highly reliable systems experience.

Contributions to internal tooling, observability, or deployment automation.

Security best practices for cloud/backend services.

Experience with sensitive data (PII/PHI) in regulated industries (e.g., healthcare, finance).

Why You’ll Love Working Here Real Impact: work on meaningful products across healthcare, commerce, sustainability, and next-gen tech.

Remote-First, Office Friendly: work from anywhere with optional in-person collaboration; async collaboration is prioritized.

An Outstanding Team: talented, kind, and dedicated professionals with no egos or politics.

Growth: opportunities to grow your craft and take on greater responsibility at your own pace.

A Culture of Excellence: high standards without burnout or crunch; quality-minded work delivered sustainably.

Variety & Stability: profitable, independent, and over a decade strong with new challenges in every project.

How to Apply and Interview Process Our hiring process is structured as a sequence of steps, with progression based on performance at each step.

We will Let you know clearly what the next step is Share updates and feedback where possible Invite questions if anything is unclear Step 1: Express your interest — please send your resume, a short note about what excites you about this role, and links to your work.

Your resume A short note about what excites you about this role Links to your work: GitHub/code snippets, portfolio, architecture/design docs, blog posts, or anything that shows how you think and build Step 2: Talent Partner Conversation — a structured discussion with our People Experience team to understand your career trajectory, motivations, and alignment with Lateral’s values.

In-depth questions about past experiences and decision-making Explore career goals and fit with the role Discuss culture, availability, compensation, and logistics Motivators and demotivators, and life outside coding Step 3: Technical interview — assess technical proficiency and problem-solving.

Focus on real-world scenarios relevant to the role.

Problem-solving exercises and discussions of approach and solutions Step 4: Client interviews — evaluate collaboration and communication with external stakeholders.

Discuss business and technical challenges from the client’s perspective Explain approach, gather requirements, and articulate tradeoffs Step 5: Operational interview — understand prioritizing, collaboration, shipping, and iteration.

How you prioritize and break down work How you collaborate across disciplines How you handle blockers, feedback, and iteration Step 6: Reference Checks — we look for patterns, strengths, and context through 2–3 references.

We may backchannel if more context is needed, with your awareness Step 7: Offer — if selected, you’ll receive a comprehensive offer detailing compensation and other information.

Join us and let’s build something extraordinary.

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