Modash
Creator Economy
SeniorEngineer
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“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.
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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