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Modash

Senior Backend Engineer, Data Core

Modash

. Build and evolve systems collecting and maintaining 400M+ creator profiles across Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube .

Posted 10/3/2026full-timeRemote • Estonia, Lithuania, Germany, Poland, Czechia, RomaniaSenior💰 €80,000 - €110,000 per yearWebsite

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Demonstrates expertise in building and maintaining high-volume backend systems with a focus on reliability, scalability, and cost management. Proficient in designing resilient integrations with third-party APIs and managing the full production lifecycle from architecture to monitoring.

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High-Volume Backend SystemsDistributed Systems DesignThird-Party API IntegrationOperational OwnershipAWS Services

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Hard Skills
TypeScriptNode.jsDistributed SystemsData SystemsAPI DesignProxy ManagementData Quality FrameworksOperational TradeoffsIdempotencyBackpressure
Soft Skills
Cross-Team CommunicationAutonomous Problem SolvingDirect Feedback
Tools & Technologies
AWSPulumiAurora LimitlessPostgresS3CloudWatchECSSQSAthenaSlack
Industry Keywords
Social-Media APIsData Collection SystemsMonitoringFreshnessCoverage

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
AWSDistributed SystemsJavaScriptNode.jsPostgresTypeScript

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Build and evolve systems collecting and maintaining 400M+ creator profiles across Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube
  • Keep billions of data points fresh for search, analytics, APIs, and customer-facing products
  • Design resilient services handling third-party API instability, rate limits, provider outages, platform changes, and partial failures
  • Improve collection coverage and freshness while controlling request, proxy, storage, and compute costs
  • Own the full production lifecycle from problem definition and architecture through coding, review, release, monitoring, and iteration
  • Build monitoring, observability, and operational safeguards to detect gaps and regressions
  • Collaborate with Data Search, Data Insights, product teams, and company leadership
  • Participate in system design, indexing dependency work, request-routing reviews, and data-quality improvements

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • Solid experience with high-volume backend or data systems where reliability, throughput, latency, and cost matter
  • Experience shipping systems from concept to production, including scoping, architecture, implementation, release, operation, and iteration
  • Experience designing distributed systems, including partial failure, retries, idempotency, backpressure, scaling, and operational tradeoffs
  • Experience building resilient integrations with rate-limited, unstable, or changing third-party APIs or external dependencies
  • Experience with proxy management or request routing, including high-volume traffic and anti-bot systems
  • Operational ownership including observability, alerting, runbooks, and post-deployment operations
  • Ability to work autonomously on ambiguous problems
  • Clear cross-team communication and ability to explain tradeoffs and give direct feedback
  • Bonus experience with social-media APIs, data-quality frameworks, large-scale collection systems, or freshness and coverage monitoring
  • AWS and Pulumi
  • TypeScript and Node.js
  • Aurora Limitless/Postgres
  • S3
  • CloudWatch
  • ECS, SQS, Athena, and other AWS services
  • Proxy networks and custom routing layers
  • Slack, GitHub, Linear, Notion, and Cursor

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Fully remote in Europe
  • Salary and stock options
  • Flexible hours
  • Unlimited paid vacation
  • Personal development support including courses, books, and conferences
  • Real ownership of production-critical infrastructure
  • Regular offsites