Your mission is to:
Design and Build End-to-End Features: Develop scalable and high-performance frontend and backend systems, working across the stack with technologies like AWS, K8S, Ruby on Rails (our legacy system), Python and Vue.js.
Lead Strategic Alignment and Initiatives: Drive high-impact engineering initiatives and manage technical communication with engineering managers, product managers, designers, and customers independently to ensure solutions align with critical business and reliability requirements.
Champion Engineering Excellence: Write robust, maintainable code and implement best practices around testing, CI/CD, performance, observability and reliability.
Architect Scalable Systems: Design and implement distributed systems and microservices with event-driven architecture using Kafka.
Maintain and Scale Tech Stack: This role offers a unique balance - you'll lead the scaling efforts of our production Rails environment to keep pace with our growth, while simultaneously architecting 'greenfield' components as we refactor toward our future-state tech stack.
Mentor and Coach: Serve as an engineering leader by mentoring junior and mid-level engineers on development best practices, engineering operational excellence, and complex system design.
Own Operations and Reliability: Take part in monitoring, incident response, production support and performance tuning across the stack.
Contribute to Agile Culture: Actively participate in sprint planning, retrospectives, and other Agile ceremonies to continuously improve team practices.
This could be a match if you have:
6+ years developing production-grade applications with Ruby/Python, backend frameworks (preferably Ruby on Rails + Sidekiq and FastAPI) and frontend frameworks (preferably Vue.js) in TypeScript.
Strong expertise in designing, implementing, and maintaining microservices architectures.
Solid hands-on experience with Kafka and event-driven systems.
Proficiency in MySQL, Elasticsearch, and Redis.
Familiarity with AWS and infrastructure orchestration tools like Kubernetes and Helm.
Deep understanding of data structures, distributed systems, and system design principles.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, technical leadership and mentoring, strong adherence to Agile methodologies, decisive and purpose-driven (we make things happen), supportive and collaborative nature (we always help each other).
Experience integrating SDKs and APIs into web
Exposure to DevOps tooling and practices (GitHub Actions, observability, SonarQube, etc.).
Prior work in fast-paced, product-focused environments or the maritime/logistics domain.
Skills Required
- 6+ years developing production-grade applications with Ruby and/or Python
- Experience with Ruby on Rails
- Experience with Sidekiq
- Experience with FastAPI
- Experience with frontend frameworks (Vue.js) and TypeScript
- Strong expertise designing, implementing, and maintaining microservices architectures
- Hands-on experience with Kafka and event-driven systems
- Proficiency in MySQL, Elasticsearch, and Redis
- Familiarity with AWS
- Familiarity with Kubernetes
- Familiarity with Helm
- Deep understanding of data structures, distributed systems, and system design principles
- Excellent communication, collaboration, technical leadership, mentoring, and Agile experience
- Experience integrating SDKs and APIs into web
- Exposure to DevOps tooling and practices (GitHub Actions, observability, SonarQube)
- Prior work in fast-paced, product-focused environments or maritime/logistics domain
What We Do
Kpler is the leading data & analytics firm providing real-time transparency in commodity markets. Relying on a methodology that combines artificial and human intelligence, the Kpler platform provides real-time data and analytics (global flows, storage, freight) on more than 40 commodities including crude oil, refined products, LNG, LPG, and dry bulk.
