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Modal · 1 week ago

Member of Technical Staff - Product (Backend)

New York

Full-time

Onsite

Mid Level

$150K/yr - $270K/yr

Modal is a fast-growing company providing infrastructure for AI teams, enabling them to train models and serve low-latency inference. They are seeking strong backend engineers to build developer tools for major AI companies, focusing on scalability and adapting to new AI workflows.

AI InfrastructureCloud Data ServicesInformation TechnologySoftwareWeb Development

No H1B

U.S. Citizen Only

Responsibilities

Building and shipping modern web applications end-to-end

Working across the stack: TypeScript on the frontend, Python services on the backend, and ClickHouse for data and analytics

Using observability tools and patterns for large-scale workloads such as custom sandboxes, training and inference for large language (LLM) and diffusion models

Working with billing/payments systems, B2B SaaS tooling, or enterprise software, or LLM/diffusion models inference and training loads

Thinking about customer problems, not just tickets

Making good tradeoffs between shipping fast and building for scale

Qualification

Backend developmentPythonTypeScriptClickHouseObservability toolsB2B SaaS experienceProduct instinctsTradeoff decision making

Required

Experience building and shipping modern web applications end-to-end. We care more about what you've built than how many years you've been building

Comfort working across the stack: TypeScript on the frontend, Python services on the backend, and ClickHouse for data and analytics

Deep knowledge of observability tools and patterns used for large-scale workloads such as custom sandboxes, training and inference for large language (LLM) and diffusion models

Experience with at least one of: billing/payments systems, B2B SaaS tooling, or enterprise software, or LLM / diffusion models inference and training loads

Strong product instincts; you think about customer problems, not just tickets

Ability to make good tradeoffs between shipping fast and building for scale

Ability to work in-person in our NYC office