Backend Engineer – Brazil or Colombia

About the role

Kpler is seeking an experienced Backend Engineer with strong full‑stack capabilities to join its product team. You will work on delivering powerful data‑driven insights for clients in commodities, energy, and maritime markets, building both front‑end interfaces and back‑end services.

Key responsibilities

• Own development, implementation, and deployment of front‑end features using Vue 3 and TypeScript.
• Contribute to back‑end architecture, extending APIs (REST, GraphQL, FastAPI) and services in Python or Scala.
• Design, build, and ship new product features end‑to‑end while ensuring high performance and availability.
• Optimize system performance, troubleshoot issues, and maintain reliability.
• Conduct code reviews, enforce coding standards, and mentor peers.

Required profile

• 5+ years of experience in full‑stack or similar engineering roles.
• Fluent English speaker comfortable in a diverse, international team.
• Proactive attitude: take ownership of bugs and improvements.
• Passion for clean, maintainable, high‑performance code.

Required skills

• Vue 3, TypeScript/JavaScript
• Front‑end testing frameworks (Jest, Mocha, Jasmine)
• RESTful APIs, GraphQL, FastAPI
• Python, Scala
• SQL, PostgreSQL (plus)
• Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Airflow
• Kafka, Snowflake, Kong (nice to have)

What we offer

• Opportunity to work on cutting‑edge data products in a fast‑growing global company.
• Collaborative, multicultural environment with over 850 experts worldwide.
• Access to innovative tools and technologies.