Senior Software Engineer, Modash
Data Search
€100-130k
+ stock options
Influencer marketing campaign platform
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Influencer marketing campaign platform
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
€100-130k
+ stock options
101-200 employees
Company mission
To help every creator earn a living.
Role
Who you are
- Built large-scale data or backend products. You have solid experience working with systems where volume, latency, reliability, and cost all matter
- Shipped products from concept to production. You’ve owned scoping, architecture, implementation, release, measurement, and iteration—not just one layer of the solution
- Designed distributed systems. You can reason clearly about throughput, failure modes, data flow, scalability, and operational tradeoffs
- Built LLM-powered or agentic features in production. You understand the practical differences between models and can balance capability against latency and cost
- Worked autonomously on ambiguous problems. You know how to gather requirements, ask useful questions, and turn incomplete context into forward motion
- Communicated clearly across teams. You can explain technical tradeoffs to engineers and non-engineers, give direct feedback, and collaborate without creating unnecessary process
- Worked in a fast-moving product environment. You’re comfortable learning quickly, shipping incrementally, and changing direction when the evidence does
- Bonus points if you’ve worked with multimodal embeddings, vector databases, semantic search, ranking algorithms, model deployment, self-hosted models, or GPU infrastructure
- Curiosity about the creator economy helps too, but we’ll get you up to speed
What the job involves
- Search at Modash isn't an internal platform or a support function
- It is one of the core products customers use to discover creators
- The scale is large, the data is messy, and the search intent is often complex
- A customer might be looking for creators in a specific niche, people whose content conveys a certain visual style, or accounts that resemble a group they already know
- Solving that well requires more than adding another filter or calling an LLM API
- We need a senior engineer who can work across the full retrieval system—from data and indexing pipelines to embeddings, ranking, relevance, and low-latency serving—and take ambiguous product problems all the way to production
- You’ll join the specialised Data Search team and work closely with Data Core, Data Insights, product teams, customers, and company leadership
- You’ll have real autonomy, but you won’t work in isolation
- You’ll improve how customers discover creators across 400M+ profiles and billions of media files. That includes retrieval, filtering, ranking, relevance, speed, and the product decisions that connect them
- You’ll build systems that generate and use embeddings from images, video, text, and audio at massive scale—then make those signals useful in a real customer-facing search experience
- You’ll evaluate models and technologies pragmatically, understand tradeoffs around cost, latency, and quality, and move promising approaches from experiment to a reliable production system within weeks rather than quarters
- You’ll help shape the problem, gather requirements, design the architecture, write the code, release it, measure the outcome, and improve it. Senior engineers here own results, not just implementation tasks
- Monday. A customer search is returning technically relevant but unhelpful results. You inspect the retrieval and ranking stages, identify where intent is being lost, and propose a measurable improvement
- Tuesday. Deep-focus time. You build a pipeline to generate multimodal embeddings across a large batch of creator content and test how the new representation affects retrieval quality and cost
- Wednesday. You work with Data Insights on a new in-house datapoint. Together, you agree on its definition, coverage, and data-quality requirements, then expose it in Search to give customers more ways to discover creators
- Thursday. You test a reranking model on a fixed set of real customer queries. You measure how much it improves relevance against the latency and inference cost it adds, then decide what's ready for production
- Friday. You review production metrics, investigate a relevance regression, and share what you learned with the team. The fix may be in the model, the data, the query logic, or the product itself—you follow the evidence
- 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, optimise, and launch
Application process
- Intro chat
- Coding interview
- System design interview
- Team interview
- Culture and alignment conversation with our CEO, Avery Schrader
Our take
Influencer marketing has become an increasingly impactful part of marketing campaigns, but it can be difficult for businesses to discover and maintain the right partnerships. This is where Modash steps in, supplying a platform for marketing teams to find, analyse and track creators for their campaigns.
With over 250,000 creator profiles available to browse, Modash's appeal is in its ability to help businesses find influencers who are the perfect fit for their campaigns, rather than a "good enough" fit. It allows users to filter by a range of things such as location and engagement rate, as well as check the performance of creator's posts.
With such a comprehensive offering, it's no surprise Modash has earned positive attention. The company serves customers such as NordVPN, Tourlane and Bolt, and has raised a good amount of funds. In 2025 it acquired fellow Estonian startup Promoty, continued to integrate further into the Shopify ecosystem, and focussed on growing its North American presence.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Oct 2024
$12m
SERIES A
Nov 2022
$2m
SEED
Total funding: $14.2m
Company benefits
- Flexible working hours ⏱
- Unlimited paid vacation time 🌴
- Fully remote working đźŹ
- Personal development đź§
- Ownership đź’ˇ
Company HQ
Telliskivi, Tallinn, Harju County
Leadership
Avery Schrader
(CEO & Co-founder)Previously VP (International Founders) at the Estonian Founders Society, as well as Influencer Marketing Coordinator at Veriff and Bolt.
Hendry Sadrak
(CTO & Co-founder)Previously a Game Developer for The Coingaming Group, an Operative Advisor for Front-End Development at TribeLotto.com and a Web Developer at Optimist Digital.
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