Power Backend Engineer

At Kpler, we are dedicated to helping our clients navigate complex markets with ease. By simplifying global trade information and providing valuable insights, we empower organisations to make informed decisions in commodities, energy, and maritime sectors.

Since our founding in 2014, we have focused on delivering top-tier intelligence through user-friendly platforms. Our team of over 700 experts from 35+ countries works tirelessly to transform intricate data into actionable strategies, ensuring our clients stay ahead in a dynamic market landscape. Join us to leverage cutting-edge innovation for impactful results and experience unparalleled support on your journey to success.

As a Power Backend Engineer you will be responsible for the development of the Power offering. You will be fully dedicated to a new product covering the Japanese power market. Apart of this role will also cover scrapping, database architecture responsibilities to enable the team and models timely access to primary market sources relating to pricing, availability and generation

Key Responsibilities

• Develop, codify, structure, expand and maintain the data scrapers in place

• Enrich the product and participate in the development of new features

• Build and improve monitoring and alerting tools and dashboards

• Ensuring good performance on our API to distribute the data to end users

• Discuss the roadmap in collaboration with the product team. Help the team build ambitious yet sustainable plans

Experience & Background

Essential:

• Circa 3-5 years' of experience as a data focused Software Engineer

• Significant experience working with Python (FastAPI is a plus)

• Have worked with with Postgresql or similar data stores,

• Proficiency in building and consuming RESTful APIs

• Comfortable working with Git, code reviews, and Agile methodologies

• Experience with time-series, events data, normalization, database design

• Strong command of written and spoken English

• Understanding of performance optimization and caching strategies

Desirable:

• Have experience with AWS (or another cloud provider), using Terraform

• Experience with orchestration tool Airflow on a production environment

• Experience with containerization (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes)

• Knowledge on hexagonal architecture and medallion architecture

• Used monitoring solutions (Datadog, Grafana, etc...)

• Experience with NoSQL database

• Experience or knowledge of sqlmesh or dbt

• Japanese speaker

Skills & Competencies

Technical / Functional Skills:

• You are proficient in Python

• You have already worked on improving performances of API and requests

Behavioural Competencies:

• Great communication, ability to work asynchronously with team members in other countries

• Curious to learn about the domain

Qualifications

BSc/MSc in computer science, computer engineering or equivalent

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