Senior Data Engineer - Paris

Since 2014, Kpler has been a pioneer in using the possibilities offered by modern data technologies to the benefit of commodity market players. Our proprietary algorithms systematically aggregate and process raw data from hundreds of sources, to deliver market players with high-frequency and actionable market information. Our clients span from world-leading trading houses, industrial and shipping companies, as well as financial players. By providing full transparency over commodity movements, Kpler enables them to drive new opportunities and make better-informed decisions for their businesses. Kpler has a footprint in every major commodity market hub and keeps expanding at a fast pace in each region of the world.

We are looking for an experienced Data Engineer to join our software engineering team in Paris (20 engineers). We are several roles open and are therefore looking for various level of experience!

Some of the exciting projects you’ll get to work on include:
• Building a completely new feature involving cloud infrastructure with a direct impact on our customer base
• Building new features for our core platform including metrics & forecasting as well as scaling and stabilizing our data pipelines

As a Senior Data Engineer, you will:
• Work across the stack to deliver new features from start-to-finish
• Improve performance and overcome scalability limits
• Own meaningful parts of our service, have an impact, grow with the company
• Actively share knowledge and document insights to support continuous team improvement and collaboration
• Act as a mentor for our junior engineers; On some projects, you may also need to act as the Tech lead

Our Tech stack includes:
• VueJs, D3js, RESTfulAPI and more on the frontend
• Python, Go, Scala, Postgresql, ElasticSearch and more on the backend

• You have at least 4 years of experience in a similar role including significant experience in Go, Scala, Python or equivalent language
• You value code simplicity, performance and details
• You are familiar with data structures and algorithms
• You have demonstrated that you can learn and adapt quickly
• You want to work in a fast, high-growth startup environment
• You are fluent in English and have experience working in an international environment

Bonus point:

• You have been acting as a Tech lead or have some management experience

Why you REALLY need to join us…

• Interesting product & challenging technical problems to solve: our market is very specialized and quite complicated! This means we build real algos and there’s some serious software engineering at work here!
• Our growth is exponential: we build new features and products everyday! We frequently tackle brand new business areas which means there’s always everything to build and always an interesting problem to sink your teeth into!
• We are still small enough that you can get exposure to our entire tech architecture, be close to the business, see the impact you make and build your career trying out different things!
• We are at the cross-road of Software Engineering, Commodity and Finance. This creates an interesting cultural mix: We value the flexibility, collaboration and employee-centric approach that the Tech culture brings but we also value the pragmatism, hard-working and intellectual excellence expectation that often runs in the Finance and Energy worlds.
• You’ll get to work in a truly global work environment: With offices in 6 countries, we come from more than 20 countries and speak more than 15 languages.
• We offer competitive compensation & benefits and are looking for feedback and opportunity to improve them everyday!