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title: 'Platform Engineer at Sparta'
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# Platform Engineer at Sparta

- **Company:** Sparta
- **Location:** London, United Kingdom
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-08-12
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-07
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/sparta-commodities/9cc6f7e5-439e-47ed-a6f1-8646055f5ed9

## Job description

We Are Sparta

Sparta is the next-generation commodity trading platform. We give trading desks the clarity, control, and collaboration they need to move faster and trade smarter.

In February 2025, we secured $42 million in Series B funding. Now we’re scaling up across the business, and it’s an exciting time to join.

Our people are the driving force behind everything we do. At Sparta, you’ll be trusted to take ownership, backed by a team who wants you to succeed. You’ll be challenged, supported, and given room to grow. Because building something this ambitious takes everyone at their best.

At Sparta, your work has reach. From improving our platform, to powering smarter decisions for our customers, to changing how commodity trading is done around the world.

And because we’re growing fast, you won’t just build your career. You’ll accelerate it, with a level of ownership and impact you simply don’t get at bigger, more bureaucratic companies.

## PLATFORM ENGINEER

Team: Platform Engineering. Level: Junior/Mid. Location: London, Barcelona or Madrid.

## ABOUT THE ROLE

You'll join our Platform Engineering team, which owns the tooling, automation and infrastructure that our development teams use to build, deploy and run their software. The role covers the full lifecycle. You'll help build the self-service platform that lets teams ship easily, work on the deployment tooling and pipelines that get their code into production, and help operate and support the infrastructure on which it all runs.

You'll need a solid grounding in AWS and cloud infrastructure concepts. It's a good fit for someone early in their career who wants to grow their platform, cloud, and Kubernetes skills while working on systems that every developer in the company depends on.

## WHAT YOU'LL DO

- Contribute to the internal platform, tooling and automation that development teams use to build, deploy and operate their applications
- Develop and maintain infrastructure as code in AWS CDK, so our AWS environment is provisioned and managed in a repeatable, reviewable way
- Extend our CI/CD pipelines, including our ongoing migration from CircleCI to GitHub Actions
- Support the runtime across Lambda, ECS and EKS, and help move more of our workloads onto our Kubernetes-based platform (EKS)
- Operate and support data and streaming infrastructure, including Redshift, RDS, Kafka, Flink and Redis/Valkey
- Support development teams in resolving incidents, helping diagnose and fix infrastructure-related issues
- Improve observability, monitoring and alerting in Datadog so problems are caught early
- Document platform capabilities and help developers adopt them

## WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

- A strong urge to own and improve things - to look for things that aren’t working and make them better
- A good working understanding of AWS and core cloud infrastructure concepts such as compute, networking, storage and IAM
- Hands-on experience with infrastructure as code, whether AWS CDK, Terraform, CloudFormation or something similar
- A working knowledge of Kubernetes and container-based workloads
- Familiarity with CI/CD tooling and the software delivery lifecycle
- Comfort with at least one programming or scripting language (for example, TypeScript, Java/Kotlin, Python or Bash) and an interest in automating things
- Comfort working with agent-based development tools. We use Claude Code, but experience with any comparable AI coding agent is fine
- A collaborative, developer-focused mindset, and an interest in making other engineers' lives easier
- A willingness to learn, get stuck in, and take part in incident response
- Clear communication and a pragmatic approach to problem-solving

## NICE TO HAVE

- Experience building or operating a platform on Kubernetes, EKS, especially
- Experience with observability tooling, particularly Datadog
- Familiarity with data or streaming systems such as Redshift, RDS, Kafka or Flink
- Understanding of security and compliance best practices in cloud environments

Sparta Commodities is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and promotes diversity within its workforce. We are determined that no-one will ever receive less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender, age, disability, religion, belief, sexual orientation, marital status, race, veteran status or any basis covered by appropriate law.

## About Sparta

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Sparta provides a forward-looking market intelligence and analytics platform purpose-built for oil trading desks, delivering real-time pricing, predictive signals, and a collaborative workspace.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series B, $42M raised in March 2025 led by One Peak; total funding $65.5M)
- **Headquarters**: Geneva, Switzerland
- **Founded**: 2020
- **Founders**: Felipe Elink Schuurman and Miles Moseley

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Oil & Gas (commodity trading) / Energy
- **Target customers**: B2B – trading houses, oil majors, refineries, hedge funds, and financial institutions operating in global oil markets
- **Mission/purpose**: Give trading teams the operating system they’ve always needed – real-time, forward-looking, and collaborative, designed for how commodity trading actually works

## Products & Services
- **[Sparta Platform](https://www.spartacommodities.com/)**: A unified workspace connecting physical and financial oil markets. Features include real-time pricing, forward curves, live arbitrage signals, blend margins, freight intelligence, and expert market commentary.
- **[Predictive Signals Platform](https://www.spartacommodities.com/)**: AI-powered trading signals, live forecasts for arbs, freight, and blend margins, over/undervaluation scores, and market dislocation alerts.
- **[Data Marketplace](https://www.spartacommodities.com/)**: Access to thousands of proprietary and third-party datasets delivered via API, SFTP, or bulk download, standardized for direct integration into models and dashboards.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metrics**: Annual revenue estimated at $5M–$25M (LinkedIn estimate); Total funding $65.5M (Seed $6M in 2022, Series A $17.5M in 2023, Series B $42M in 2025)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: One Peak (led Series B), FirstMark (led Series A), Singular (led Seed round); partnerships with 30+ leading brokerages and data houses
- **Growth Signals**: 107 employees (+19.6% YoY); offices across 9 countries (US, Switzerland, UK, Spain, UAE, Singapore, Austria); regularly cited by Bloomberg, Reuters, and Financial Times

## Competitive Advantages
- Only forward-looking predictive analytics platform built specifically for oil trading desks, connecting physical and financial markets in one workspace
- Co-founded by veteran oil traders with 37+ years combined experience – built “by traders, for traders”
- Real-time, shared view of the full market with instant updates across cracks, arbs, margins, and blends
- Strong data moat with 5+ years of partnerships and thousands of standardized datasets

## Strategic Focus
- Continue expanding the “operating system for commodity trading” with deeper AI-driven forecasting and automation
- Scale the Data Marketplace and predictive signal capabilities for crude, refined products, and freight
- Grow global presence across US, Europe, and Asia (recent offices in Dubai, Singapore)

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: “Sparta Code” emphasizes ownership, bias for action, honest feedback, and a “fall in love with the problem” mindset. Values include making reversible decisions quickly, treating conflict as a gift, and understanding the ‘why’ behind every mission.
- **Work model**: Hybrid workspace – employees combine remote and on-site work across 6+ global offices (Geneva, Houston, New York, London, Madrid, Valencia, Singapore, Dubai, Vienna)
- **Notable perks**: Autonomy and trust; flat hierarchy where “ask for forgiveness, not permission” is encouraged; strong backing from top-tier VCs; exposure to fast-growing energy tech sector
- **Engineering culture**: Focus on building a high-performance, collaborative environment; leadership includes Chief Technology Officer Tom Gorenbar Peled and Chief Product Officer

## Sources
1. [spartacommodities.com - About](https://www.spartacommodities.com/about/)
2. [spartacommodities.com - Careers](https://www.spartacommodities.com/careers/)
3. [linkedin.com - Sparta Commodities](https://www.linkedin.com/company/sparta-commodities)
4. [builtin.com - Sparta Commodities SA](https://builtin.com/company/sparta-commodities-sa)

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