Senior Data Engineer, Kpler
Real-time trade intelligence tools for global markets
Be an early applicant
Real-time trade intelligence tools for global markets
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To facilitate efficient and sustainable trade through the provision of state-of-the art, technology-led data, analytics and market insight.
Role
Who you are
- Exposure to Kafka, Spark, or streaming architectures
- Experience with Kubernetes
- Familiarity with event-driven or microservices architectures
- Exposure to analytical datastores (e.g. Elasticsearch)
- Full-stack awareness (e.g. ability to read, review, and provide feedback on frontend or API-layer pull requests, without being a primary frontend contributor)
- Prior experience working on data products in energy, commodities, or industrial domains
- Don’t meet every single requirement? Don’t let the confidence gap stand in your way, we’d love to hear from you!
What the job involves
- You will join a data-intensive product team responsible for building and operating core data pipelines and backend systems that model and deliver insights on global refinery operations and economics
- The team works at the intersection of data engineering, backend engineering, and data science, transforming diverse industrial and market data into reliable, production-grade datasets used by customers and internal teams
- This role is a senior individual contributor position, with significant ownership over data architecture, pipeline reliability, and engineering standards
- You will help shape how data is engineered, validated, and delivered across the Refineries product
- Design, build, and evolve batch and streaming data pipelines that power refinery modeling, analytics, and customer-facing products
- Own complex data ingestion, transformation, validation, and delivery workflows across multiple data sources
- Drive improvements in pipeline reliability, scalability, and observability, including retries, backfills, data quality checks, and monitoring
- Lead schema design, versioning, and evolution strategies to support stable, long-lived data contracts
- Build and maintain backend components and APIs used to serve data to downstream systems and applications
- Partner closely with data scientists, product managers, and other engineers to translate domain requirements into robust technical solutions
- Continuously improve existing systems as data volume, complexity, and product expectations grow
- Deliver high-quality, well-tested, and maintainable code, setting a strong example for engineering best practices
- Own significant parts of the data platform end-to-end, from ingestion to production delivery
- Make architectural contributions to data processing, storage, and delivery patterns
- Contribute to and improve CI/CD pipelines, automation, and operational tooling
- Instrument services and pipelines with metrics, logs, and alerts, and help define operational standards
- Play an active role in incident response, root-cause analysis, and long-term system improvements
- Review code, mentor other engineers, and help reinforce shared coding and architectural standards across the team
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Even as more and more industries digitise, processes in legacy industries such as trade remain relatively archaic – with commodity markets running on incomplete, dispersed and sometimes inaccurate information. Kpler, founded in 2014, brings data technology to trade, in order to make the space more efficient and sustainable.
Kpler is the leader in its field, claiming ten times the revenue and commercial footprint of its nearest competitor. The company supplies real-time, transparent data on commodity markets, as well as actionable insights for those acting in the industry. Partnerships with leading data providers and analytics firms have bolstered Kpler’s offerings to cover a range of markets across the trading space, cementing its leadership as a provider of commodity market data.
On top of this, the company has secured massive funding for its continued expansion, received atop already impressive growth and between 2022 and 2023, acquired five companies. The investment is being used to make more smart acquisitions, of note within the growing maritime analytics and logistics market, hire talent, and accelerate development to ensure it remains at the forefront of its field.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
92% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (1 round)
Apr 2022
$220m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Total funding: $220m
Company benefits
- Hybrid working environment: Work in office spaces at central locations, sponsored co-working hubs or in a full-remote set-up.
- WFH monthly allowance: We provide top of the range office equipment along with a set-up budget for whatever you need. Along with a monthly allowance for electricity and wi-fi.
- Health insurance coverage: We offer health insurance coverage for employees to ensure you are always safe and healthy.
- Time-off when you need it: Global maternity, parental, medical, festivals, and compassionate leave policies aligned to the contemporary needs of the family, and individual choices.
- Regular outings and social events: We hold regular events (online and on-site) for staff to socialise and interact with each other in the team.
Company HQ
Etterbeek, Brussels
Leadership
Jean Maynier
(Co-Founder & CTO)Non-Executive Director at Spark Commodities. Co-founder and former CEO of eCO2Market. Previously a System Adviser at CDPQ, with experience as a Business Analyst.
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