Senior Data Engineer (remote, Europe)

Modash; Barcelona; A distancia; EUR 70.000 - 90.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

A leading data platform company seeks a Senior Data Engineer to drive projects in the creator economy. This fully remote role involves building impactful data products, requiring expertise in Spark, ETL processes, Python, and workflow orchestration. Ideal candidates enjoy autonomy and collaboration, contributing to a growing data team with flexible work culture and unlimited vacation.

Servicios

Unlimited paid vacation

Flexible hours — async-friendly culture

Personal development support

Regular offsites

Formación

• Located in Europe with overlapping hours with GMT+3.
• Experience with AI / ML tools or LLMs is a plus.

Responsabilidades

• Own projects end-to-end, from idea to launch.
• Build data products that directly impact customers.
• Work closely with backend engineers as part of the data team.

Conocimientos

Solid experience as a Data Engineer

Strong knowledge of Spark (PySpark ideal)

Experience with ETL / ELT pipelines

Hands-on experience with Python and SQL

Comfortable working with unstructured data

Experience with workflow orchestration tools like Airflow

Familiarity with the AWS ecosystem

Built full features from idea to production

Herramientas

AWS

Spark (EMR)

Airflow

DynamoDB

S3

Glue

Kinesis

Lambda

Descripción del empleo

Overview

Remote — Data Team — Full-time

Modash builds a world-class data platform powering creator discovery for thousands of companies. We’re looking for a hardened Senior Data Engineer to shape the direction of the creator economy.

What Your Day-to-Day Will Look Like

We’re not a service function — data engineering is a core product capability at Modash, building products for customers to use. You’ll own projects end-to-end, from idea to launch.

Typical day:

• Start your day with a short standup
• Heads-down focus time to plan, build, iterate, and launch
• Minimal meetings — maximum ownership

You’ll work on big, impactful projects like

• Building a creator search engine indexing 200M+ influencer profiles
• Understanding creators’ location, age, and interests at scale
• Creating systems to extract audience demographics from raw social data
• Shaping the future of AI-assisted search, exploring how LLMs and embeddings can enhance search and recommendations

You won’t be patching pipelines — you’ll be creating data products from scratch that directly impact customers.

Data Team

Data engineering is at the heart of the product. You’ll be part of a growing team of 4 data engineers, working alongside 4 backend engineers as part of our broader data organization.

We work in two closely aligned teams

• Data Engineering — building our data platform, pipelines, and data points (like for search)
• Backend Engineering — APIs, infrastructure, and product features that use our data

We value autonomy and collaboration — through pair programming, feedback, and shared wins. Everyone is expected to take ownership, but nobody works in isolation. We’re remote-first with regular team offsites.

Tech Stack

• AWS with Pulumi (IaC)
• Spark (EMR) — primarily PySpark
• Airflow for orchestration
• DynamoDB, S3, Glue, Kinesis, Lambda, ECS
• GitHub, Confluence, Miro, Jira

Interview Process

We move fast. You can be interviewed in under a week. Process typically includes :

• Intro chat
• Technical interviews : Coding challenge (PySpark) and System Design
• Team fit / Project presentation
• Culture & alignment call with the CEO

Requirements

Skillset we’re looking for

• Solid experience as a Data Engineer with strong knowledge of Spark (Scala, Databricks, or PySpark — PySpark ideal)
• Proven track record with ETL / ELT pipelines and large-scale data processing
• Hands-on experience with Python and SQL
• Comfortable working with unstructured data
• Experience with workflow orchestration tools like Airflow or AWS Step Functions
• Familiarity with the AWS ecosystem (Glue, EMR, DynamoDB, etc.)
• Built full features from idea to production : planning & scoping → architecture → coding → release
• Based in Europe with overlapping hours with GMT+3

Bonus points

• Experience with AI / ML tools or LLMs
• Strong emphasis on code quality and system design
• Interest in the creator economy

We’re looking for people who

• Seek the best versions of themselves and want to prove what they can do
• Communicate directly and give / receive feedback openly
• Are autonomous and can work without heavy processes
• Take ownership and stand up for their team and community
• Are fun, honest, and hardworking — no ego trips

Benefits

• Fully remote — work from anywhere in Europe
• Unlimited paid vacation
• Flexible hours — async-friendly culture
• High ownership, low bureaucracy
• Personal development support — courses, books, or conferences
• Regular offsites — connect with your team IRL

About Modash

Founded to help brands scale partnerships with online content creators, Modash serves 1500+ companies including Google, Wolt, Bolt, NordVPN, and others. We’re profitable and backed by top European investors. We’re a small, ambitious team with a focus on building the data backbone of the creator economy.

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