diff --git a/test-potel-trace-propagation/backend/pyproject.toml b/test-potel-trace-propagation/backend/pyproject.toml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1df1fce
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test-potel-trace-propagation/backend/pyproject.toml
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+[project]
+name = "test-potel-trace-propagation-backend"
+version = "0"
+requires-python = ">=3.12"
+
+dependencies = [
+    "blinker>=1.9.0",
+    "flask>=3.1.0",
+    "gunicorn>=23.0.0",
+    "ipdb>=0.13.13",
+    "markupsafe>=3.0.2",
+    "requests>=2.32.3",
+    "sentry-sdk[flask,opentelemetry-experimental]",
+]
+
+[tool.uv.sources]
+sentry-sdk = { path = "../../../sentry-python", editable = true }
diff --git a/test-potel-trace-propagation/backend/requirements.txt b/test-potel-trace-propagation/backend/requirements.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index 2d74de4..0000000
--- a/test-potel-trace-propagation/backend/requirements.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
-flask
-blinker
-markupsafe
-
-requests
-
-gunicorn
-
--e  ../../../../code/sentry-python[opentelemetry-experimental]
-
-ipdb
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diff --git a/test-potel-trace-propagation/backend/run.sh b/test-potel-trace-propagation/backend/run.sh
index 5a7f89e..1e02273 100755
--- a/test-potel-trace-propagation/backend/run.sh
+++ b/test-potel-trace-propagation/backend/run.sh
@@ -1,18 +1,8 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
+set -euo pipefail
 
-# exit on first error
-set -xe
+if ! command -v uv &> /dev/null; then
+    curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh
+fi
 
-# create and activate virtual environment
-python -m venv .venv
-source .venv/bin/activate
-
-# Install (or update) requirements
-python -m pip install -r requirements.txt
-
-
-# Run Flask application on localhost:5000
-flask --app main run
-
-# Run Flask application with multithreading (port 8000)
-# gunicorn main:app -w 1 --threads 12
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+uv run flask --app main run