Pangramlabs
Senior Software Engineer (Backend)
New York City · Senior
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 106 days ago
PythonReactDjangoBackend DevelopmentAlgorithmsAWSDockerKubernetesTerraformCI/CDPrometheusGrafanaDatadogAPI DevelopmentRESTMachine LearningDeep LearningData EngineeringResearch
About the role
- This is a senior, high-autonomy role: you'll make architectural decisions, solve hard scaling problems, and ensure our systems are reliable and performant as demand grows.
- You'll work across our Django backend and AWS infrastructure, collaborating closely with our frontend and machine learning teams.
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
- Deep understanding of backend architecture patterns: RESTful API design, relational databases, message queues, caching strategies, and asynchronous task processing
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a strong backend focus
- Proficiency in Python and Django (or comparable Python web frameworks)
Nice to have
- Hands-on experience with AWS services (e.g., 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
- Experience with containerization (Docker) and container orchestration (Kubernetes)
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar)
- Experience with monitoring and observability tooling (e.g., Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK)
- Strongly Preferred
Benefits
- Collaborate with ML engineers to deploy and serve machine learning models in production
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