As a Data Engineer on the Power team, enhance data retrieval pipelines, expand market coverage, develop features, and optimize API performance while collaborating with data scientists.
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.
The Power team is responsible for a product covering the whole product related to the European power market. This includes a large datasets of data to retrieve, normalize and distribute to our users, and also offer different proprietary datasets such as real time availability computation or market forecasts on different time horizons, from intra day to long term.
Your mission is to:
- Enhance the different pipelines in place to retrieve data from external providers.
- Participate in expanding the coverage of the data retrieved to new markets or geographies.
- Enrich the product and participate in the development of new features.
- Build and improve monitoring and alerting tools and dashboards.
- Contributing towards good performance of our API which distributes the data to end users.
- Work together with Data Scientists and market experts with strong experience in this domain.
- Help the team build ambitious yet sustainable plans for growth and improvement.
This could be a match if you have/are:
- BSc/MSc in computer science, computer engineering or equivalent.
- Circa 3-5 years' of experience as a data focused Software Engineer.
- Significant experience working with Python (FastAPI is a plus).
- Working experience with Postgresql or similar data stores.
- Proficiency in building and consuming RESTful APIs.
- Comfortable working with Git, code reviews, and Agile methodologies.
- Understanding of performance optimization and caching strategies.
- Great communication, ability to work asynchronously with team members in other countries.
- Curious to learn about the domain.
- Strong command of written and spoken English.
- Have experience with AWS (or another cloud provider), using Terraform
- Experience with containerization (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes)
- Knowledge on hexagonal architecture and medallion architecture
- Used monitoring solutions (Datadog, Grafana, etc...)
Desirable experience
We are a dynamic company dedicated to nurturing connections and innovating solutions to tackle market challenges head-on. If you thrive on customer satisfaction and turning ideas into reality, then you’ve found your ideal destination. Are you ready to embark on this exciting journey with us?
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Don’t meet every single requirement? Research shows that women and people of color are less likely than others to apply if they feel like they don’t match 100% of the job requirements. Don’t let the confidence gap stand in your way, we’d love to hear from you! We understand that experience comes in many different forms and are dedicated to adding new perspectives to the team.
Kpler is committed to providing a fair, inclusive and diverse work-environment. We believe that different perspectives lead to better ideas, and better ideas allow us to better understand the needs and interests of our diverse, global community. We welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives and are an equal opportunity employer.
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