Senior Product Data Engineer (remote, Europe)

Employment: Full-time Experience: Mid-Senior level Education: Unspecified Remote — Data Insights 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, the Data Insights team is building the intelligence layer that turns raw social media signals into trusted, customer-facing data products — with reliable access, quality, and freshness at scale.⁠ We’re looking for a hardened Senior Product Data Engineer to help us scale these systems end-to-end, raise our quality bar, and accelerate how quickly we turn messy public data into consistent, valuable insights customers can build on.⁠ ⁠ ⁠​ 🚀 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 Insights 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 plan, build, iterate, and launch Minimal meetings — maximum ownership You’ll be working on big, impactful projects like: Creating an understanding of the creators location, age, and interests at scale Creating systems to extract collaborations between creators and brands 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. 👥 The Data Team At Modash, the Data Insights team isn’t a support function — it’s a core part of the product. You’ll join a growing group of data and backend engineers, working within our broader Data organization. We work in three closely aligned teams within Data: Data Insights — builds the creator and brand-level insight products and APIs (e.g., collaborations, reports, dictionaries, contacts, audience overlap). Data Search — owns our search products (including AI Search) end-to-end. Data Core — responsible for raw data collection and the foundations of our data platform. We value autonomy, but we also work closely as a team — through pair programming, fast feedback loops, and shared wins. Everyone is expected to take ownership, but nobody works in isolation. We’re remote-first, and we also make time to connect IRL through regular team offsites — to have fun, collaborate, and reflect. ⚙️ Our tech stack AWS and GCP with Pulumi (IaC) PySpark on AWS EMR for compute GCP Vertex Batch API for LLMs Airflow for orchestration Iceberg and Aurora (Postgres) for persistence Other: S3, Glue, Kinesis, Lambda, ECS, Athena Tools: Slack, GitHub, Linear, Notion, Cursor 🧪 The interview process We move fast. You can get interviewed in under a week. Process consists of: 1. Intro chat 2. Technical interviews: 1. Coding challenge (in PySpark) and 2. System Design 3. Team fit / Project presentation 4. Culture & alignment call with the CEO Avery Schrader - That’s it! Requirements 🛠 Skillset we’re looking for Strong knowledge of Spark (Scala, Databricks, or PySpark; PySpark preferred but not required) Proven track record with ETL/ELT pipelines and large-scale data processing Comfortable working with unstructured data Experience with workflow orchestration tools like Airflow or AWS Step Functions Familiarity with the AWS ecosystem (Glue, EMR, etc.) You've shipped full features from idea to production: planning & scoping → architecture → implementation → release → iteration Based in Europe with significant working-hours overlap with EET (Tallinn time) Hands-on experience building agentic / LLM-powered features in production Practical understanding of trade-offs between LLMs (cost, latency, capability) ✅ Bonus points if you… Have worked with AI/ML tools or LLMs Are familiar with the GCP stack (especially Vertex AI) Have worked with lakehouse formats like Apache Iceberg Have used Pulumi or Terraform for IaC Are familiar with Node.js and TypeScript Understand AWS cost mechanics (how scale impacts spend) Care deeply about code quality and system design Are curious about the creator economy (we'll help you get up to speed) Not a fit if... Your data engineering experience is primarily in analytics or BI (dashboards, internal reporting, warehouse modeling for analysts) You haven't built and operated data products that ship as part of a customer-facing application You're looking for a role focused on stakeholder reporting rather than building production data systems 🧑‍🔧 We’re looking for people that Are tirelessly in search of the best versions of ourselves – Who want to really show what they’ve got and want to prove the world and themselves what they’re capable of. Are direct in their communication – We support and encourage one another through direct, immediate & helpful feedback. Know how to become autonomous - Who we can trust to do their best work without needing processes to guardrail. Are willing to take ownership to stand up for ourselves, our teams, and our communities. Have fun, are honest, and do great work – No title chasers, no finger pointers, no being awful. Absolutely no slowing down to protect ego. Benefits 🎁 What we offer Fully remote — work from anywhere in Europe Compensation . Your compensation is made up of salary and stock options. As we're growing fast, the stock option package is especially significant. Annual salary range is 100,000€ - 130,000€ for this role. We hire across Europe, so the exact number depends on your location, employment type, skills, and experience. Unlimited paid vacation 🌴 Flexible hours — async-friendly culture High ownership, low bureaucracy, no bullshit. Personal development support — courses, books, or conferences on us Regular offsites — connect with your team IRL Help us build the data backbone of the creator economy. Apply now — we’d love to meet you.😊 A little bit 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.