Backend Engineer - Commodities
Core
Build and maintain scalable ingestion and processing pipelines for sensor, rail, and waterway data to transform raw telemetry into high-value datasets for the commodities, energy, and maritime sectors.
Role type
Backend Engineer (Data Pipelines & Services)
Builds
Scalable data ingestion pipelines, backend services, and customer-facing web applications
Domain
Commodities, Energy, Maritime, IoT, Logistics
Required skills
Python, SQL/Postgres, Cloud (AWS), Message Queues (Kafka), RESTful API development, System Monitoring, CI/CD
Preferred skills
FastAPI, Airflow, TypeScript, Vue, Elasticsearch, Time-series data, Geospatial datasets
Technologies
Python, Kafka, Airflow, FastAPI, TypeScript, Vue, AWS, Postgres, Elasticsearch
Responsibilities
Build and maintain scalable ingestion and processing pipelines for sensor, rail, and waterway data; Develop backend services using FastAPI and contribute to customer-facing web applications using TypeScript and Vue; Implement data validation, system monitoring, and alerting; Operate owned services end-to-end, taking charge of deployments, observability, and on-call rotation; Collaborate with data science and sensor operations teams to transform raw telemetry into usable datasets; Drive continuous platform health by participating in technical design discussions and improving CI/CD workflows.