Data Engineer (Multiple Roles) - AI SaaS
VortexaLondon, England, United Kingdom
Posted July 23, 2025
Full Time
About the Company
Building the future of energy markets Vortexa tracks more than $3 trillion of waterborne energy trades per year in real-time, providing energy and shipping companies with the most complete picture of global energy flows available in the world today. Vortexa’s highly intuitive web-based app and programmatic API/SDK interfaces help traders, analysts and charterers make high-value trading decisions with confidence, when it matters the most. The web-based platform shares highly detailed oil & gas products flows, produced by hard data, machine learning and state-of-the-art technology with oversight from in-house global industry experts providing real-world context to continually train and improve the models.
Job Description
Vortexa is a fast-growing international technology business that creates an unprecedented view on the global seaborne energy flows in real-time. We're seeking a Data Engineer to design and build infrastructure and applications to propel the design, deployment, and benchmarking of existing and new pipelines and ML models.
Requirements
- Experienced in building and deploying distributed scalable backend data processing pipelines that can go through terabytes of data daily using AWS, K8s, and Airflow.
- With solid software engineering fundamentals, fluent in both Java and Python (with Rust good to have).
- Knowledgeable about data lake systems like Athena, and big data storage formats like Parquet, HDF5, ORC, with a focus on data ingestion.
- Driven by working in an intellectually engaging environment with the top minds in the industry, where constructive and friendly challenges and debates are encouraged, not avoided.
- Excited about working in a start-up environment: not afraid of challenges, excited to bring new ideas to production, and a positive can-do will-do person, not afraid to push the boundaries of your job role.
- Passionate about coaching developers, helping them improve their skills and grow their careers.
- Deep experience of the full software development life cycle (SDLC), including technical design, coding standards, code review, source control, build, test, deploy, and operations.
Benefits
- A vibrant, diverse company pushing ourselves and the technology to deliver beyond the cutting edge
- A team of motivated characters and top minds striving to be the best at what we do at all times
- Constantly learning and exploring new tools and technologies
- Acting as company owners (all Vortexa staff have equity options)– in a business-savvy and responsible way
- Motivated by being collaborative, working and achieving together
- A flexible working policy- accommodating both remote & home working, with regular staff events
- Private Health Insurance offered via Vitality to help you look after your physical health
- Global Volunteering Policy to help you ‘do good’ and feel better
