Backend Engineer (Commodities)

Location: Greece; hybrid workplace

Company

Kpler provides a real-time trade intelligence platform that is expanding from maritime coverage into connected North American inland supply chains.

What you will do

• Build and maintain scalable ingestion and processing pipelines for sensor, rail, and waterway data.
• Develop backend services and contribute to customer-facing web applications.
• Implement validation, monitoring, and alerting for noisy time-series data from field hardware.
• Own services end to end, including deployments, observability, and on-call operations.
• Collaborate with data science and sensor operations teams to turn raw telemetry into usable customer datasets.
• Contribute to technical design, CI/CD improvements, tested code, and documentation.

Requirements

• 2–4 years of professional software engineering experience with production software.
• Strong Python and relational database skills, including SQL and PostgreSQL.
• Experience deploying, debugging, and operating backend services in cloud environments; AWS is preferred.
• Hands-on experience with message queues, streaming platforms such as Kafka, and RESTful APIs.
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to turn ambiguous requirements into working code.

Nice to have

• Experience with FastAPI, Airflow, TypeScript, Vue, or Elasticsearch.
• Exposure to time-series, IoT, remote sensor, or geospatial datasets.
• Interest in energy, commodities, or logistics supply chains.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid working environment in Greece.
• High-autonomy “you build it, you run it” ownership model.
• Close collaboration across engineering, data science, and sensor operations.
• Participation in an on-call rotation and end-to-end service ownership.