8+ years of professional software engineering experience with significant impact as an individual contributor.
Strong expertise in Python and modern front-end frameworks (e.g., React, Next.js, Typescript).
Proficiency in Django or similar Python web frameworks, RESTful API design, and relational databases.
Hands-on experience with AWS services like EC2, RDS, and Lambda.
Comfortable across the tech stack, with strengths in either front-end or back-end development.
Fluency with AI coding tools and a thoughtful approach to their application.
Interest in AI, machine learning, and responsible AI practices.
Responsibilities
Own and ship product features end-to-end for both consumer and B2B verticals.
Collaborate with GTM, Product, and Research teams to enhance user experiences with machine learning technology.
Ensure reliability, performance, and observability of production systems.
Transform design specs and prototypes into functional products.
Review code to elevate quality standards across the company.
Establish and refine engineering best practices throughout the stack.
Benefits
Full-time, office-based role in Brooklyn, requiring in-office presence 5 days a week.
High level of autonomy and ownership in projects.
Opportunity to influence major technical decisions and product vision.
Hands-on role with direct involvement in software development.
Full Job Description
About the Role
As a Staff 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, staff engineers are highly autonomous and are expected to take on ambitious levels of scope and ownership. Staff 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 also a hands-on, IC role, getting your hands dirty building software from end-to-end.
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:
8+ years of professional software engineering experience delivering exceptional impact as an IC engineer across a wide range of product and engineering needs
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
