founding engineer

Company Description Pango is building an agentic operating system for e-commerce logistics, unifying shipping, tracking, returns, and warehouse workflows into one platform powered by AI agents . We're based in Stockholm and San Francisco and backed by some of the most Some of the most prominent investors in the world. Less then a year we have seen massive growth where we can't keep up with the demand and need engineers to bring the product faster to the market. What you'll be responsible for Building and maintaining production-grade services across our Laravel monolith and Google Cloud Functions layer Shipping merchant-facing React surfaces that turn complex logistics workflows into something a brand operator actually wants to use Owning carrier, warehouse, and shop-system integrations end to end, from the first webhook to long-term reliability Driving performance, cost, and reliability improvements through experiments, profiling, and pragmatic refactoring Enabling the broader team with primitives, tooling, and shared infrastructure that make the next feature faster to build Your hard skillset 5+ years of professional engineering experience overall Strong experience in one backend language (PHP, Ruby, Python, Go, or Rust) with genuine willingness to go deep on PHP/Laravel OR strong experience in React Comfortable across the stack: backend services, frontend, message queues, caches, search, infrastructure as code Experience at product-focused startups using modern tooling and processes Bonus: Shopify, multi-carrier shipping APIs, or e-commerce logistics experience Bigger bonus: you've taken a product from 0 to 1 and watched real users depend on it Even bigger bonus: you've integrated LLMs or agentic workflows into production, not just a demo Your soft skillset Comfortable being uncomfortable, making calls with incomplete data, and changing your mind when the data changes Empathetic and curious. You build for the merchant, not for the benchmark Highly collaborative across product, engineering, and go-to-market. No lone wolves Detail-oriented but pragmatic. You know when accuracy matters and when to ship You own your work and welcome the accountability that comes with it Growth and levels We operate on a transparent leveling framework. Each level reflects increasing ownership, impact, and scope, with real jumps in salary and equity. Promotions are based on output, not tenure. This isn't a comfy engineering role. It's fast, focused, and merchant-obsessed. You will launch fast. You will learn fast. You will own what you ship. The process Intro call with the founders (30 minutes) Technical walkthrough and async take-home task (approximately 60 minutes) Final round with the team (half day, on-site if possible) By the end, you'll be wanting access to the stack before your first day, because you'll see exactly what kind of company we're building, and exactly how fast your career can move inside it.