Backend Engineer (Commodities)

Location: United Kingdom; hybrid workplace

Company

Kpler provides a real-time trade intelligence platform and is expanding it from maritime coverage into 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 RESTful APIs, and contribute to customer-facing web applications.
• Validate noisy time-series telemetry and implement monitoring and alerting for data quality.
• Own services end to end, including deployments, observability, and on-call support.
• Collaborate with data science and sensor operations teams to transform raw telemetry into customer-ready datasets.
• Participate in technical design, CI/CD improvements, testing, and documentation.

Requirements

• 2–4 years of professional software engineering experience building and supporting production software.
• Strong Python and relational database skills, including SQL and Postgres.
• 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 API development.
• 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

• High-autonomy “you build it, you run it” engineering model.
• Close collaboration across engineering, data science, and sensor operations.
• Participation in an on-call rotation and ownership of service health.