Member of Technical Staff - Product (Backend)

Stack

Responsibilities

• ▹Build and ship modern web applications end-to-end
• ▹Work across the stack: TypeScript on the frontend, Python services on the backend, and ClickHouse for data and analytics
• ▹Apply observability tools and patterns for large-scale workloads such as custom sandboxes, training, and inference for LLM and diffusion models
• ▹Work with billing/payments systems, B2B SaaS tooling, enterprise software, or LLM/diffusion model inference and training loads
• ▹Participate in on-call rotation and respond to production incidents

Requirements

• ▹Experience building and shipping modern web applications end-to-end
• ▹Comfort working across the stack: TypeScript, Python, ClickHouse
• ▹Deep knowledge of observability tools and patterns for large-scale workloads
• ▹Experience with at least one of: billing/payments systems, B2B SaaS tooling, enterprise software, or LLM/diffusion model inference and training loads
• ▹Strong product instincts
• ▹Ability to make good tradeoffs between shipping fast and building for scale
• ▹Ability to work in-person in the NYC or SF office

Soft skills

About the company

Modal is building a new AI infrastructure layer. Customers include category-defining companies like Lovable, Ramp, Cognition, DoorDash, and Suno. They recently raised a $355M Series C at a $4.65B valuation.