Senior Software Engineer

Pangram Labs; New York (NY); On-site; USD 185,000 - 225,000; Full time

Job summary

Pangram Labs is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to build product experiences for individuals and large organizations. You’ll own features end-to-end, collaborate with GTM, Product, and Research, and scale production systems handling high user growth.

This is a full-time, office-based role reporting to the CTO, based in our Brooklyn office (5 days per week). You’ll drive engineering best practices, participate in system design, and contribute to responsible AI initiatives.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of professional software engineering experience
• Strong skills in Python, React/Next.js/TypeScript, Django, RESTful APIs
• Experience with AWS services (EC2, ECS/EKS, RDS, S3, SQS, CloudFront, Lambda)
• Front-end and back-end comfort with strong skills in one
• Experience with AI coding tools and responsible AI awareness

Responsibilities

• Own and ship product features end-to-end for consumer and B2B verticals
• Collaborate with GTM, Product, and Research to bring Pangram’s machine learning technology to polished user experiences
• Own the reliability, performance, and observability of production systems
• Turn design specs and prototypes into shippable, working products
• Review code and raise the quality bar for code across the company
• Establish and improve engineering best practices across the stack

Skills

Python

React

Next.js

TypeScript

Django

RESTful APIs

Relational databases

Message queues

Caching

Async processing

AWS

Tools

EC2

ECS/EKS

RDS

S3

SQS

CloudFront

Lambda

Job description

At Pangram, we firmly believe that genuine human expression, and our ability to communicate with each other online and through the written word, is a fundamental right- and a value worth preserving.

About Pangram Labs

Pangram Labs’ mission is to protect authenticity and preserve human connection in the context of the generative AI era. We build 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. We provide tools for individuals, institutions and companies to detect the use of AI in written content.

Pangram is a recognized thought leader in the space of AI detection. Our CEO & Co-founder Max Spero has been named as one of Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in AI and Pangram has been named one of Time’s Best Inventions of 2026.

About The Role

As a Senior Software Engineer at Pangram, you will build great product experiences for our users - both individuals and large organizations. You’ll work on a variety of different projects, from owning the product lifecycle from end-to-end to launching new features to designing, building, and scaling the production systems that serve our core technology to a rapidly growing user base. At Pangram, senior engineers are highly autonomous and are expected to take on ambitious levels of scope and ownership. Senior engineers at Pangram own major technical decisions, tackle our hardest scaling problems, and help shape the vision of our product and our infrastructure.

This is a full-time role, office-based in our Brooklyn office (5 days per week), reporting to our CTO.

What You'll Do

• Own and ship product features end-to-end in both consumer and B2B verticals.
• Work closely with GTM, Product, and Research functions to bring Pangram’s machine learning technology to polished user experiences
• Own the reliability, performance, and observability of production systems
• Turn design specs and prototypes into shippable, working products
• Review code and raise the quality bar for code across the company
• Establish and improve engineering best practices across the stack

Qualifications

You are a strong fit for this role if you have:

• 6+ years of professional software engineering experience
• Strong Engineering experience in our technology stack:
  • Python
  • Front-End: Modern front-end frameworks (e.g. React, Next.js, Typescript)
  • Back-End: Proficiency in Python and Django (or comparable Python web frameworks); RESTful API design, relational databases, message queues, caching strategies, and asynchronous task processing
  • Hands-on experience with AWS services (e.g., EC2, ECS/EKS, RDS, S3, SQS, CloudFront, Lambda)
• Comfort across the stack: front-end and back-end, with strength in either and at minimum comfort in the other.
• Fluency and comfort with AI coding tools and thoughtfulness around their use
• A strong sense of taste and craftsmanship, bias towards action, and clear communication skills
• Interest in AI, machine learning, and LLMs; including AI safety and responsible AI

Nice to Have

• Experience working at an early stage startup
• Experience with browser extensions
• Experience with mobile apps

Compensation Range: $185K - $225K