sparta-commodities - Staff Backend Engineer
Requirements
• Experience working within or closely with DevOps, SRE and or infrastructure teams • Experience leading teams or managing engineers, driving both delivery and technical excellence. • Exposure to complex distributed environments with demanding constraints such as high throughput, low latency, or large-scale datasets.
Responsibilities
• Help lead the design, build, and maintenance of distributed backend systems powering both real-time and analytical data processing. • Optimise data pipelines and services for low latency, high throughput, and scalability. • Collaborate closely with the broader engineering team and cross-functional stakeholders to ensure alignment on technical direction and product goals. • Drive architectural decisions that strengthen system reliability, performance, and scalability. • Contribute to the definition and realisation of our target architecture, helping guide the evolution of the platform. • Mentor and support other engineers through design reviews, technical discussions, and knowledge sharing • 7+ years of experience as a software engineer, with a strong track record of delivering production-quality systems. • 2+ years working within a product-focused organisation, collaborating closely with cross-functional teams. • Proven experience building data-intensive applications at scale and deploying them to production environments. • data-intensive applications • Ability to effectively reason about system trade-offs, including throughput, latency, consistency, and cost. • system trade-offs • Comfortable working with multiple programming languages such as Kotlin, Java, Python, and TypeScript. • Kotlin, Java, Python, and TypeScript. • Equally comfortable designing holistic, high-level architecture as well as diving deep into low-level implementation details. • high-level architecture • low-level implementation details. • Experienced in building, analysing, and interpreting system observability (metrics, logging, tracing). • system observability • Experienced in designing, building, and deploying services in cloud environments such as AWS or GCP. • cloud environments • Experienced in working with core infrastructure technologies tooling such as Kafka, Flink, Redis and/or clustered Postgres • Kafka, Flink, Redis
Benefits
• At Sparta, our culture is built on innovation, collaboration, and high performance. We thrive in a fast-paced environment where initiative is celebrated, challenges are embraced, and impact is rewarded. • Equity in a high-growth, VC-backed company • $42M in Series B funding—strong market traction and investment • Early-stage growth—build your career as we scale • Market-leading product—we are redefining energy trading intelligence • Top-tier tools and technology to support your success • WHAT’S THE CULTURE LIKE AT SPARTA? • At Sparta, our culture is not just a set of values written on a wall—it's a way of life. We embrace a dynamic environment where initiative is celebrated, challenges are met head-on, and innovation thrives. • You'll collaborate with like-minded individuals who are passionate about our mission and deeply committed to crafting outstanding products and achieving success for our customers. • · Ask for forgiveness, not permission: We are building a category-defining company, and that requires speed, boldness, and ownership. If you see something that needs doing, do it. Don’t wait. Own it. If it goes wrong, learn fast and fix it. Celebrate initiative. Mistakes are feedback, not failure. • · Discomfort is where growth happens: Growth doesn’t come from playing it safe. It comes from stretching beyond what you already know. Embrace change, seek new challenges, push your boundaries. We reward those who are brave enough to try, fail, and learn. • · Stay hungry, ditch the ego: Spartans are ambitious - but for the mission, not for the politics. Leave your ego at the door. Titles don’t matter. Results do. Focus on what drives real outcomes, not what makes you look good. Ambition fuels progress, and humility keeps us grounded. • · Fall in love with the problem: We exist to solve real customer problems - not to push our ideas. Always start with their needs, not our assumptions. Everything else is noise. • · Challenge openly, support fully: We grow through truth, not silence. Feedback is a gift - but only when it’s shared with courage and care. Radical candour builds trust. We embrace diverse debate, but once a decision is made, we align and wholeheartedly commit.
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