Senior Backend Engineer – Real-Time Data Platform

United States Digital Space LLC; United States; Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Commodities is building the next generation of streaming and analytical data platforms for global traders. We seek engineers who own meaningful parts of the system, ship with speed, and care about reliability at scale.

As a backend-focused role, you’ll work across Kotlin, Java and Python, with AWS/GCP and Kafka/Flink-based data pipelines. Expect a hybrid work style at an organization that values ownership and practical problem-solving.

Qualifications

• >4 years of software engineering with production systems experience.
• >Ownership mindset and ability to drive features end-to-end.
• >Experience working cross-functionally in a product-driven environment.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain backend services for real-time and analytical data processing.
• Own features end-to-end from design through production.
• Optimize pipelines for low latency, high throughput and scale.
• Collaborate with engineers, product and stakeholders to align on direction.
• Contribute to design reviews with clear trade-offs.
• Maintain observability, feedback loops and incident response.
• Mentor teammates and share knowledge.

Skills

4+ years exp

Owns features

Cross-functional

Multi-language

System design

Kotlin

Java

Python

TypeScript

AWS/GCP

Tools

Kafka

Flink

Redis

PostgreSQL

AWS

GCP

Job description

Commodities is building the next generation of streaming and analytical data platforms for global traders. We seek engineers who own meaningful parts of the system, ship with speed, and care about reliability at scale.

As a backend-focused role, you’ll work across Kotlin, Java and Python, with AWS/GCP and Kafka/Flink-based data pipelines. Expect a hybrid work style at an organization that values ownership and practical problem-solving.