Pangram Labs
Senior Software Engineer (Backend)
$220K–$340K
Brooklyn · On-site · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 10, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a strong backend focus.
About the job
Design, build, and scale backend services and AWS infrastructure that power Pangram’s AI detection platform.
What you'll do
- Develop scalable backend services and APIs, and maintain production reliability, performance, and observability.
- Architect data pipelines, caching layers, and AWS infrastructure; identify and resolve scaling bottlenecks.
- Collaborate with ML engineers to deploy models and improve engineering practices for testing, deployment, and incident response.
What they ask for
- Proficiency in Python and Django or comparable Python web frameworks.
- Strong knowledge of backend architecture, including RESTful APIs, relational databases, message queues, caching, and asynchronous task processing.
- Hands-on AWS experience and experience designing highly available, horizontally scalable systems with graceful degradation.
- Strong production debugging and performance-profiling skills.
Nice to have
- Docker and Kubernetes; CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation.
- Monitoring and observability tools such as Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, or ELK; production deep-learning model serving or frontend collaboration experience.
Pay
$220K – $340K USD total pay
Tools
Python, Django, AWS, EC2, ECS/EKS, RDS, S3, SQS
AI focus
Build backend systems for AI detection and collaborate with ML engineers to deploy and serve machine learning models in production.
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