Senior Backend Engineer - Scalable AI Detection (Django/AWS)

Pangram Labs; New York (NY); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Pangram Labs in Brooklyn, NY is seeking a backend-focused Senior Software Engineer to design, build, and scale production systems for our AI-detection platform. You will own the backend infrastructure and make architectural decisions to support a rapidly growing user base, collaborating with frontend and ML teams.

This is a senior, high-autonomy role where you will shape reliability, performance, and scalability while integrating Django-based services with AWS infrastructure and data pipelines.

Qualifications

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

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.

Skills

Python

Django

REST APIs

AWS

Relational DBs

Caching

Asynchronous Tasks

Performance Debugging

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

CloudFormation

Datadog

Prometheus

Grafana

ELK

Job description

Pangram Labs in Brooklyn, NY is seeking a backend-focused Senior Software Engineer to design, build, and scale production systems for our AI-detection platform. You will own the backend infrastructure and make architectural decisions to support a rapidly growing user base, collaborating with frontend and ML teams.

This is a senior, high-autonomy role where you will shape reliability, performance, and scalability while integrating Django-based services with AWS infrastructure and data pipelines.