Backend Engineer: Real-Time Data & APIs

Kpler; United States; Remote; USD 79,000 - 101,000; Full time

Job summary

Kpler is seeking a Software Engineer to join the founding Connected Supply Chain team in Greece. You will build and operate core services that extend our real-time trade intelligence platform beyond marine coverage into North American inland supply chains, adopting a 'you build it, you run it' model.

You will own deployments, observability, and end-to-end service operations, collaborating with data science and sensor operations to transform raw telemetry into valuable datasets for early customer

Qualifications

• 2 to 4 years of professional software engineering experience.
• Strong proficiency with Python and relational databases (SQL / Postgres).
• Proven experience deploying, debugging, and operating backend services in cloud environments (AWS preferred).
• Hands-on exposure to message queues, streaming platforms (e.g., Kafka), and RESTful API development.
• Strong problem-solving skills with a high degree of agency to move from ambiguous requirements to working code.

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, usable 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 / Postgres

AWS

RESTful APIs

Kafka

Tools

Airflow

Job description

Kpler is seeking a Software Engineer to join the founding Connected Supply Chain team in Greece. You will build and operate core services that extend our real-time trade intelligence platform beyond marine coverage into North American inland supply chains, adopting a 'you build it, you run it' model.

You will own deployments, observability, and end-to-end service operations, collaborating with data science and sensor operations to transform raw telemetry into valuable datasets for early customer