Modash

Creator Economy

SeniorEngineer

Rome, Lazio, Italy FULL TIME Remote Friendly
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The Brief

“Senior Engineer at Modash. Skills: Data Search, Data Platform Development, Large-scale Data Products, Search Systems, LLM Integration, Vector Search, Embeddings. Own high impact projects end-to-end, from idea to launch. Design, build, and optimise large-scale data products tied to search systems”

What You'll Achieve.

Deliver impactful features; Improve search accuracy, speed, and scalability; Serve millions of requests with low latency; Build the search backbone of the creator economy

Industry & Context.

Creator Economy
Eligibility Requirements

Based in Europe, Some overlap with GMT+3

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

Solid experience as a Data or Backend Engineer working with large scale data products, Built full products from concept to production: scoping → architecture → implementation → release → iteration, System design skills and experience with large-scale, high-volume environments, Hands-on experience building agentic / LLM-powered features in production, Practical understanding of trade-offs between LLMs (cost, latency, capability), Familiarity with AWS (SageMaker, Glue, Kinesis, SQS, Lambda, ECS), Clear communication skills, Collaborative mindset, Autonomy in gathering requirements for complex projects, Experience in fast-paced startup environments, Based in Europe with some overlap with GMT+3

Nice to Have

Worked with multimodal embeddings (image, video, text, audio), Experience with vector search, embeddings, semantic search, and ranking algorithms, Hands-on AI/ML experience, ideally including deploying or self-hosting models and/or working with GPU infrastructure, Care deeply about code quality and best practices, Curious about the creator economy

What You'll Do.

Own high impact projects end-to-end

and optimise large-scale data products tied to search systems

Continuously improving search accuracy

Building a creator search engine indexing 400M+ influencer profiles and billions of media files

Generating embeddings from images

and audio at massive scale

Creating systems for advanced filtering

and relevance scoring

Deploying the latest ML models for semantic and vector search into production

Designing indexing and querying pipelines to serve millions of requests with low latency

Experimenting with how LLMs

multimodal embeddings

and vector databases can enhance search & recommendations

Creating production-ready search products from scratch

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Collaborating with data core, data insights, and other product teams; Working closely with tightly aligned teams (Data Core, Data Insights); Pair programming; Code reviews; Collaborating with the CEO, CTO, engineers, sales, and customers; Working with remote-first teams; Connecting IRL at regular team offsites

Communication Scope

Clear communication skills; Direct communication

Process & Methodology

Scoping, Architecture design, Implementation, Release management, Iteration

Full Job Description

**Remote — Data Search Team — Full-time** Modash gives brands the tools to work with the right content creators and helps creators earn a living doing what they love. Behind the scenes, **we’re building the world-class data platform that powers creator discovery for thousands of companies** — and we’re looking for a hardened **Senior Engineer** to shape the direction of the creator economy. ### 🚀 What your day-to-day will look like We’re not a service function — Data Search & Data Insights are core product capabilities at Modash, building products for customers to use. **Data Search is a specialised team** in Data Org, and you’ll own high impact projects end-to-end, from idea to launch. Here’s a typical day: * Start your day with a short standup * Heads-down focus time to design, build, and optimise large-scale data products tied to search systems * Minimal meetings — maximum ownership * Collaborating with data core, data insights, and other product teams to deliver impactful features * Continuously improving search accuracy, speed, and scalability You’ll be working on big, impactful projects like: * Building a creator search engine indexing **400M+ influencer profiles** and billions of media files * Generating embeddings from images, videos, text, and audio at **massive scale** * Creating systems for advanced filtering, ranking, and relevance scoring * Deploying the latest ML models for semantic and vector search into production within weeks * Designing indexing and querying pipelines to serve millions of requests with low latency * Experimenting with how LLMs, multimodal embeddings, and vector databases can enhance search & recommendations You won’t be patching pipelines — you’ll be **creating production-ready search products from scratch** that directly impact customers. ### 👥 The Data Team At Modash, search is a joint effort within the Data Team. You’ll work closely with tightly aligned teams, including: * **Data Core** – building large-scale raw data collecti

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