Backend Engineer - Commodities

About the role

As a software engineer on the Connected Supply Chain team, you will build and run core services that extend Kpler's real-time trade intelligence platform into North American inland supply chains. You will operate under a high-autonomy model, managing sensor telemetry from field hardware to customers through streaming pipelines, APIs, and user-facing features. Your work will integrate pipeline, rail, and waterway data to provide a unified view of the supply chain.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain scalable ingestion and processing pipelines for sensor, rail, and waterway data using Python, Kafka, and Airflow.
• Develop backend services using FastAPI and contribute to customer-facing web applications using TypeScript and Vue.
• Implement data validation, system monitoring, and alerting to ensure noisy time-series data from field hardware remains accurate and complete.
• Operate owned services end-to-end, taking charge of deployments, observability, and participation in the team's on-call rotation.
• Collaborate closely with data science and sensor operations teams to transform raw telemetry into high-value, usable datasets for early customer adoption.
• Drive continuous platform health by participating in technical design discussions, improving CI/CD workflows, and delivering tested, well-documented code.

Required skills

• Python
• SQL
• Postgres
• Cloud environments
• AWS
• Message queues
• Kafka
• RESTful API development

Nice to have

• FastAPI
• Airflow
• TypeScript
• Vue
• Elasticsearch
• Time-series data
• IoT
• Geospatial datasets

About the Company

Kpler is dedicated to helping clients navigate complex markets by simplifying global trade information and providing insights in commodities, energy, and maritime sectors. Since 2014, the company has delivered intelligence through user-friendly platforms, supported by a team of over 850 experts across 69 countries.