Senior Backend Engineer - Data Core (remote, Europe)

Remote — Data Core Team — Full-time

Hey, I'm Andrei . I’m hiring a Senior Backend Engineer to join the Data Core team at Modash.

Modash helps brands find, understand, and work with creators across Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube. More than 2,700 companies—including Stanley 1913, Sennheiser, and NordVPN—use us to manage and scale their creator partnerships.

Every one of those products depends on fresh, reliable creator data.

Data Core owns the systems that collect and maintain profiles for 400M+ creators across social platforms, process billions of data points, and keep the rest of Modash supplied with the raw material it needs.

That’s where you come in.

Why we're hiring

Data Core isn't an internal support team. It owns the collection infrastructure that the entire Modash product—and every downstream data team—depends on.

Collecting social data at this scale is a hard distributed-systems problem.

APIs change without warning.

Providers become unreliable.

Platforms rate-limit requests.

Data grows stale.

A tiny inefficiency becomes expensive when repeated hundreds of millions of times.

We need a senior engineer who can design resilient services, make thoughtful tradeoffs between coverage, freshness, reliability, and cost, and take production-critical systems from a rough idea to dependable operation.

You’ll join the specialised Data Core team and work closely with Data Search, Data Insights, product teams, and company leadership. You’ll have real ownership, but you won’t work in isolation.

If you want a feel for how we think about building software, check our Engineering Blog .

What you'll actually own

You’ll build and evolve the systems that collect and maintain 400M+ creator profiles across Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube—keeping billions of data points fresh enough for search, analytics, APIs, and customer-facing products.

You’ll design services that handle third-party API instability, rate limits, provider outages, platform changes, and partial failures without turning every disruption into a customer incident.

At this scale, every request, proxy call, retry, storage decision, and compute cycle matters. You’ll improve coverage and freshness while keeping the system financially sustainable.

You’ll shape the problem, design the architecture, write and review the code, ship it, observe it, and improve it. You’ll build the monitoring and operational safeguards that catch gaps and regressions before customers do.

What the day-to-day looks like

Here’s what a typical week might include:

We keep meetings purposeful and protect time for deep work. You’ll have a short standup, close collaboration when it helps, and plenty of space to design, build, harden, and operate systems.

Requirements

What you've done before

Bonus points if you’ve worked with social-media APIs, data-quality frameworks, large-scale collection systems, or freshness and coverage monitoring. Curiosity about the creator economy helps too, but we’ll get you up to speed.

Our stack

The interview process

We move quickly and can complete the process in under a week:

Benefits

And a little more about us...

Founded in 2018 by a high-school dropout and a Canadian (yes, we’re also shocked it’s going so well), Modash is building a suite of tools that help brands scale partnerships with online content creators.

2,700+ companies like Stanley 1913, Sennheiser, and NordVPN already use Modash to manage and scale their influencer marketing work.

And we're just getting started.

Over the coming decade, brand investment in creators will continue to boom, and Modash will be at the centre of it all.

Modash is here to stay. We have 8-figures in ARR across two products, a $12M series A investment , and we are default alive. We are building a company that will still be here in 20 years; not rushing towards an exit.

We’re almost 100 people distributed across 20+ countries, operating with a fast, async-first culture.

If you join Modash, you’ll be surrounded by people who truly want to be the greatest at their craft.

People who make you better.

Interesting people too, who have done everything from building solar cars, to hanging out with Metallica and Bon Jovi.

Come join us. Be great, do great things, create great memories, all while making a great impact. Do it.

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