Kpler
Commodities, Energy, Maritime
BackendSoftwareEngineer-AI&AgenticSystems
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“Backend Software Engineer - AI & Agentic Systems at Kpler. Skills: Backend services, LLM agents, GenAI solutions. Design backend services. Ship production services”
Industry & Context.
Root cause analysis
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
5+ years production Python, 7+ years production Python, Async fundamentals, Shipped LLM applications in production, Production observability experience, Engineering judgement
Nice to Have
Experience with most stack technologies
What You'll Do.
Design backend services
Ship production services
Integrate language models
Integrate external tools
Own code from development to production
Design backend services orchestrating models
Build agentic workflows
Instrument agentic workflows
Maintain agentic workflows
Improve streaming inference reliability
Improve streaming inference latency
Improve streaming inference cost
Write evaluation harness
Work with product engineers on features
Work with analysts on features
Work with frontend engineers on features
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Product teams; Analyst teams; Frontend engineers
Full Job Description
## 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. ## Your future position Kpler has an opening for a Backend Engineer to build the platform behind our AI products: the services that power LLM agents serving analysts and customers across the commodity markets we cover. You will design and ship production services, integrate language models and external tools, and follow the "You build it, you run it" philosophy, owning your code from development through production. This role offers a stimulating environment where you can build state-of-the-art GenAI solutions that directly impact how thousands of users interact with complex data. You'll work at the frontier of AI and UX, with the freedom to experiment, learn, and shape the future of AI-powered data analysis. What you will work on: Designing and extending backend services that orchestrate language models, tools, and data sources. Building, instrumenting, and maintaining agentic workflows: tool integrations, planners, structured outputs, retries, evaluation pipelines. Improving reliability, latency, and cost of streaming inference. Writing the evaluation harness that lets us change models and prompts without regressing quality. Working with product, analysts, and frontend engineers on features end-to-end. Stack: Python (or other applicable languages), FastAPI, PostgreSQL, Docker, Ku
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