Backend Engineer: Real-Time Data & IoT Pipelines

Kpler; Scotland; Remote; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Kpler is seeking a Software Engineer to join the founding Connected Supply Chain team. You will build core services extending our real-time trade intelligence platform beyond marine coverage into North American inland supply chains, deploying and running the software end-to-end.

You will work with Python, Kafka, Airflow, FastAPI, TypeScript and Vue, shipping data from field sensors and turning telemetry into usable datasets for early customer adoption.

Qualifications

• 2–4 years of professional software engineering experience building and supporting production software.
• Strong proficiency with Python and relational databases (SQL/Postgres).
• Experience deploying, debugging, and operating backend services in cloud environments (AWS preferred).
• Hands-on exposure to message queues, streaming platforms (Kafka), and RESTful API development.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain scalable ingestion and processing pipelines for sensor, rail, and waterway data using Python, Kafka, and Airflow.
• Develop backend services using FastAPI and contribute to customer-facing web applications using TypeScript and Vue.
• Implement data validation, system monitoring, and alerting to ensure noisy time-series data from field hardware remains accurate and complete.
• Operate owned services end-to-end, taking charge of deployments, observability, and participation in the team's on-call rotation.
• Collaborate closely with data science and sensor operations teams to transform raw telemetry into high-value datasets for early customer adoption.
• Drive continuous platform health by participating in technical design discussions, improving CI/CD workflows, and delivering tested, well-documented code.

Skills

Python

SQL

Problem solving

Cloud deployment

Tools

PostgreSQL

Kafka

Airflow

FastAPI

TypeScript

Vue

RESTful APIs

Job description

Kpler is seeking a Software Engineer to join the founding Connected Supply Chain team. You will build core services extending our real-time trade intelligence platform beyond marine coverage into North American inland supply chains, deploying and running the software end-to-end.

You will work with Python, Kafka, Airflow, FastAPI, TypeScript and Vue, shipping data from field sensors and turning telemetry into usable datasets for early customer adoption.