--- title: 'Software Engineer II (Python) - Supply & Demand at Kpler' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/software-engineer-ii-python-supply-demand-kpler-athens-w6943qnxy1j8' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-07' --- # Software Engineer II (Python) - Supply & Demand at Kpler - **Company:** Kpler - **Location:** Athens, Greece - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** hybrid - **Posted:** 2026-07-24 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-07 - **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/kpler/440f8828-67ab-4fa3-9cff-54131e335a5a ## Job description At Kpler, we are dedicated to helping our clients navigate complex markets with ease. By simplifying global trade information and providing valuable insights, we empower organisations to make informed decisions in commodities, energy, and maritime sectors. Since our founding in 2014, we have focused on delivering top-tier intelligence through user-friendly platforms. Our team of over 700 experts from 35+ countries works tirelessly to transform intricate data into actionable strategies, ensuring our clients stay ahead in a dynamic market landscape. Join us to leverage cutting-edge innovation for impactful results and experience unparalleled support on your journey to success. Join Kpler’s Commodities Tribe as our next Software Engineer II and help shape the future of our Supply & Demand products. Our Supply & Demand platform transforms complex global commodity data-from production sites, trade flows, imports, exports, refinery activity, consumption, and stock changes-into trusted market intelligence used by our clients around the world. Historically focused on crude oil, our team is now evolving the platform to support a much broader range of commodities, including refined products, biofuels, metals, and beyond. This is a major engineering transformation: building a scalable, reusable platform that can support new commodity markets without creating separate solutions for each product. As a Software Engineer II, you will contribute to the development and operation of the systems behind our Supply & Demand products. You will own meaningful technical areas, delivering reliable solutions across data pipelines, backend services, APIs, and data-quality systems. You will work closely with experienced engineers, Product, Research, and Data teams to solve complex problems where domain knowledge, data challenges, and engineering decisions come together. This role is ideal for an engineer who enjoys taking ownership, working with complex data, and growing their technical impact while contributing to products used by customers globally. Your future position: - Own a commodity balance end-to-end: take half-defined blending rules through computation, validation and a reliable production release on the Airflow pipeline, including the on-call afterward. - Lead the resolution of critical bugs and incidents in the crew's pipelines, databases and distribution APIs; turn each incident into a runbook entry and a prevention. - Extend and harden the anomaly-detection / data-quality gate (Prophet-based) so bad numbers are caught before publication, reducing false positives and time-to-detect. - Help generalise the S&D data model and the shared ETL framework so adding a commodity is an extension, not a fork of the engine. - Design and incrementally deliver well-scoped milestones for crew projects; write and review ADRs and participate actively in design reviews. - Build and evolve the data-distribution APIs (Oil and Grains TypeScript services) consumed by the webapp and by external clients. - Onboard and mentor junior (P2, P1) engineers joining the crew: pairing, reviewing, and growing their independence. - Partner with Research, Product and Data to turn half-defined data needs into well-scoped, deliverable engineering tasks. - Identify and close gaps in observability and monitoring across the crew's DAGs and services, and manage escalations for the crew. - Participate in hiring loops as a calibrated interviewer. Experience & Background: Essential: - 2+ years of experience as a software engineer, with experience delivering production systems. - Experience owning a non-trivial feature or service end-to-end in production (design, ship, monitor, and fix), not just delivered tickets. - Strong Python for data-heavy work (e.g. pandas/polars, SQLAlchemy or equivalent ORM, a relational database with real schema evolution). - Comfortable debugging and operating production data pipelines, and has carried on-call or first-responder duty for systems they built. - Has taken a half-defined problem and shaped it into a delivered solution without waiting to be told the route. Desirable: - Experience with workflow orchestration (Airflow / Astronomer or similar) and batch/ETL data pipelines. - TypeScript/Node API experience (NestJS, Express, tsoa, TypeORM) for the distribution-API surface. - Exposure to commodities, energy, or any domain with messy, multi-provider data that must be reconciled. - Has mentored a junior engineer or onboarded a new joiner. - Familiarity with anomaly detection / forecasting (Prophet, scikit-learn) or data-quality tooling. Behavioural Competencies: - You take responsibility for delivering outcomes, not just completing individual tasks. You follow through on your work and actively look for ways to improve the systems you contribute to. - You understand that delivering software includes testing, monitoring, supporting production systems, and learning from incidents. - You are comfortable working through complex problems, breaking down ambiguity, and collaborating with others to find practical solutions. - You work effectively with engineers, Product, Research, and Data teams, sharing context and building solutions together. - You actively seek feedback, learn from others, and continuously develop your technical skills and understanding of the domain. - You care about building reliable, maintainable software and consider the impact of your technical decisions on customers and teammates. We make things happen We act decisively and with purpose, going the extra mile. We build
together We foster relationships and develop creative solutions to address market challenges. We are here to help We are accessible and supportive to colleagues and clients with a friendly approach. Our People Pledge Don’t meet every single requirement? Research shows that women and people of color are less likely than others to apply if they feel like they don’t match 100% of the job requirements. Don’t let the confidence gap stand in your way, we’d love to hear from you! We understand that experience comes in many different forms and are dedicated to adding new perspectives to the team. Kpler is committed to providing a fair, inclusive and diverse work-environment. We believe that different perspectives lead to better ideas, and better ideas allow us to better understand the needs and interests of our diverse, global community. We welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives and are an equal opportunity employer. ## About Kpler ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Kpler is a data and analytics platform providing real-time intelligence on global commodity flows, vessel movements, and physical trade. - **Entity Type**: Private (PE-backed; primarily founder- and employee-owned) - **Headquarters**: Brussels, Belgium - **Founded**: 2014 - **Founders**: Two engineers (names not publicly listed) who started the company in a kitchen ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: Maritime and commodity trade intelligence; data & analytics (classified as Technology, Information and Media) - **Target customers**: B2B — commodity traders, analysts, shipping professionals, energy companies, supply chain operators, and financial institutions across 40+ markets (liquids, gas, dry bulk, freight, power) - **Mission**: "Serve as the definitive intelligence platform for global physical trade, driving real-time decisions" ## Products & Services - **Kpler Platform**: Subscription-based real-time cargo tracking and commodity flow analytics covering 40+ markets, including vessel movements, volumes, product grades, buyers/sellers, and forecasted destinations. - **MarineTraffic**: World's leading ship tracking and maritime intelligence provider, acquired as a Kpler brand. - **Inbox**: Collaborative communication platform designed specifically for the maritime and global supply chain industry. - **Kpler APIs & Data Integrations**: Developer portal for embedding trade-flow and maritime data into applications, plus an Excel Add-In, Cloud DB, and Snowflake-native data solutions. - **Kpler MCP (Beta)**: Model Context Protocol integration that lets large language models translate plain-language requests into precise API calls, returning answers as narrative, charts, or CSV. ## Market Standing - **Valuation**: Not disclosed - **Key Metric**: Total funding of **$201.6M** across funding rounds, most recently a Private Equity round (April 2022) led by Insight Partners and Five Arrows Growth Capital, followed by a secondary market round (June 2026) led by Sixth Street. - **Annual Revenue**: LinkedIn's data provider reports **EUR 6.7M** — this figure appears significantly understated relative to the company's scale (850+ employees, profitable since launch) and should be treated as an unreliable estimate. - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Insight Partners, Five Arrows Growth Capital, Sixth Street - **Growth Signals**: - Headcount grew **+22.1% YoY** (data provider reports 599 employees; company site reports 850+ employees and 69 nationalities) - Acquisitions: **FleetMon** (March 2023) and **COR-e** (September 2022), plus MarineTraffic - **54 active job postings**; job postings up **+116% YoY** - Expanding into power markets with dedicated Data Engineer and ML Engineer roles - Processes **1.3bn+ AIS signals per day** with a global network of agents and experts ## Competitive Advantages - **Proprietary datasets**: 1.3bn+ AIS signals per day and 245k–255k+ tracked assets/experts create a defensible data moat. - **First-mover in LNG**: Revolutionized the LNG market with the first cargo-tracking solution in 2014. - **Profitable from the start**: Remains primarily owned by founders and team members, allowing long-term product focus. - **Global footprint**: Operations in 10+ countries with workforce distributed across 34+ countries, providing on-the-ground intelligence and 24/7 coverage. - **Brand portfolio**: MarineTraffic and FleetMon extend reach across maritime and supply chain segments. ## Strategic Focus - Building a "singular platform for global trade intelligence" that consolidates commodities, freight, and maritime data. - Expanding into **power markets** and adjacent commodity verticals. - Investing in **AI/ML capabilities**, including the MCP beta for LLM-driven data access and ML engineering hires. - Deepening **data integrations** (APIs, Snowflake, Cloud DB, Excel) to embed Kpler data into customer workflows. ## Why Work Here - **Flexibility**: Hybrid, fully remote, or on-site options; employees can work from central office spaces, sponsored co-working hubs, or fully remote. - **Perks**: WFH monthly allowance for electricity and wi-fi, top-of-range office equipment and setup budget, health insurance coverage. - **Leave**: Global maternity, parental, medical, festival, and compassionate leave policies. - **Culture**: 69 nationalities across the company; regular online and on-site social events; described as "globally minded, flexibility-driven, and innovation-fueled." - **Employer rating**: 3.7/5 from 158 reviews on LinkedIn — Work-Life 3.7, Compensation 3.7, Culture 3.2, Career 3.5. - **Salary benchmarks** (from LinkedIn data): Account Manager ~$99,343/yr, Account Executive ~$111,985/yr, Data Engineer ~€60,000/yr. - **Talent pool**: Frequently hires from competitors and adjacent data providers including MarineTraffic, Spire, Wood Mackenzie, S&P Global, Argus Media, and Bloomberg. ## Sources 1. [kpler.com — Careers](https://www.kpler.com/company/careers) 2. [kpler.com — About Us](https://www.kpler.com/company/about-us) 3. [linkedin.com — Kpler](https://www.linkedin.com/company/kpler) 4. [jobs.lever.co — Kpler](https://jobs.lever.co/kpler) 5. 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