Remote Senior Backend Engineer — Data Core & Scale

Modash; Kraków; Remote; PLN 351,000 - 482,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote in Europe

Stock options

Flexible hours

Unlimited paid vacation

Personal development support

Regular offsites

Job summary

Modash, a remote-first company in Europe, is hiring a Senior Backend Engineer for the Data Core team. You’ll design and implement scalable data collection systems that maintain 400M+ creator profiles, integrating across Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube.

You’ll own production, handle API variability, and optimize cost and freshness. The role emphasizes end-to-end ownership—from architecture to monitoring—working with Data Search, Data Insights, and product teams.

Qualifications

• Experience building large-scale backends and data pipelines.
• Ownership of complete lifecycle from concept to production.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems and fault tolerance.
• Experience with third-party APIs and external data sources.
• Comfort working in a fast, async-first environment.

Responsibilities

• Keep data flowing at massive scale across platforms.
• Design resilient services to handle API instability and rate limits.
• Improve economics of collection while ensuring freshness.
• Own production, observability, and operational runbooks.

Skills

Distributed systems

Backend engineering

Big data throughput

Observability & monitoring

Autonomous collaboration

Tools

AWS

Pulumi

Aurora/Postgres

S3

CloudWatch

ECS

SQS

Athena

Job description

Modash, a remote-first company in Europe, is hiring a Senior Backend Engineer for the Data Core team. You’ll design and implement scalable data collection systems that maintain 400M+ creator profiles, integrating across Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube.

You’ll own production, handle API variability, and optimize cost and freshness. The role emphasizes end-to-end ownership—from architecture to monitoring—working with Data Search, Data Insights, and product teams.