Senior Fullstack Engineer - Chartering & Inbox
TLDR
Lead high-impact development of scalable email client solutions across the stack, mentor junior engineers, and drive reliability for the MT Inbox crew at Kpler.
Design and Build End-to-End Features: Develop scalable and high-performance frontend and backend systems, working across the stack with technologies like AWS, K8S, Ruby on Rails(including Sidekiq), Python and Vue.js.
Lead Strategic Alignment and Initiatives: Drive high-impact engineering initiatives and manage technical communication with engineering managers, product managers, designers, and customers independently to ensure solutions align with critical business and reliability requirements.
Champion Engineering Excellence: Write robust, maintainable code and implement best practices around testing, CI/CD, performance, observability and reliability.
Architect Scalable Systems: Design and implement distributed systems and microservices with event-driven architecture using Kafka.
Maintain and Scale Tech Stack: This role offers a unique balance - you'll lead the scaling efforts of our production Rails environment to keep pace with our growth, while simultaneously architecting 'greenfield' components as we refactor toward our future-state tech stack.
Mentor and Coach: Serve as an engineering leader by mentoring junior and mid-level engineers on development best practices, engineering operational excellence, and complex system design.
Own Operations and Reliability: Take part in monitoring, incident response, production support and performance tuning across the stack.
Contribute to Agile Culture: Actively participate in sprint planning, retrospectives, and other Agile ceremonies to continuously improve team practices.
6+ years developing production-grade applications with Ruby/Python, backend frameworks (preferably Ruby on Rails + Sidekiq and FastAPI) and frontend frameworks (preferably Vue.js) in TypeScript.
Strong expertise in designing, implementing, and maintaining microservices architectures.
Solid hands-on experience with Kafka and event-driven systems.
Proficiency in MySQL, Elasticsearch, and Redis.
Familiarity with AWS and infrastructure orchestration tools like Kubernetes and Helm.
Deep understanding of data structures, distributed systems, and system design principles.
Experience integrating SDKs and APIs into web and mobile apps.
Exposure to DevOps tooling and practices (GitHub Actions, observability, SonarQube, etc.).
Prior work in fast-paced, product-focused environments or the maritime/logistics domain.
Prior experience with React Native and MongoDB.
Kpler builds a platform that simplifies global trade information, providing insights specifically for the commodities, energy, and maritime sectors. Our service empowers organizations to make informed decisions by navigating the complexities of these markets.
- Founded
- Founded 2014
- Employees
- 51-200 employees
- Industry
- Professional Services