Senior Software Engineer (Backend)

About the Company

Pangram Labs’ mission is to protect authenticity by building the world’s best AI detection systems. We publish research on state-of-the-art AI detection techniques and algorithms, and build products to bring our technology into people's daily lives.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable backend services and APIs to serve AI detection capabilities at scale
• Own the reliability, performance, and observability of production systems
• Architect and maintain data pipelines, caching layers, and service infrastructure on AWS
• Collaborate with ML engineers to deploy and serve machine learning models in production
• Identify and resolve bottlenecks across the stack as traffic and complexity increase
• Establish and improve engineering best practices around testing, deployment, and incident response

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience with a strong backend focus
• Proficiency in Python and Django
• Deep understanding of backend architecture patterns including RESTful API design, relational databases, message queues, and caching
• Hands-on experience with AWS services (EC2, ECS/EKS, RDS, S3, SQS, CloudFront, Lambda)
• Experience designing systems for high availability and horizontal scalability
• Strong debugging and performance-profiling skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform or CloudFormation
• Experience with monitoring and observability tooling such as Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, or ELK
• Experience deploying and serving deep learning models in production
• Familiarity with React or frontend technologies