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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Lead / Senior Software Engineer- Python - **Company:** Vortexa - **Location:** Greater London, UK (Remote available) - **Experience:** Expert - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Airflow, Amazon Web Services, Code Review, Data Infrastructure, Software Debugging, Distributed Systems, Fault Tolerance, Python (Programming Language), Machine Learning, Simple Data Format, Software Engineering, Parquet, Data Processing, Apache Spark, Backend, Kotlin, Data Lakes, Kubernetes, Apache Flink, Apache Kafka, Software Coding, Software Version Control, Data Pipelines, Apache Beam, Microservices - **Published:** September 10, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.collegerecruiter.com/job/2840589729-lead--senior-software-engineer-python ## About the Role * Fluent in Python and software engineering fundamentals, and comfortable with highly scalable data processing libraries * Strong expertise in distributed systems, micro-service architectures and scalable data processing pipelines * 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 * Experienced in building distributed heavy-load backend systems that can go through terabytes of data daily * 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 Awesome If You * Are experienced in Rust / Java / Kotlin * Have experience with AWS, Apache Kafka, Kafka Streams, Apache Beam / Flink / Spark - especially deployment, monitoring & debugging * Have experience with productisation of Machine Learning research projects * Are familiar with Airflow or other workflow orchestration tools, and worked with Kubernetes * Understand data lake systems and file formats like Parquet, Orc, Athena * Have some relevant AWS or Kafka certifications ## Description The Data Platform Team is responsible for all of Vortexa's data. The team's ownership ranges from raw satellite AIS/imaging data to unstructured textual and graphical maritime data like fixtures, port lineups, and customs filings. The team is also responsible for highly structured datasets such as price and supply-demand forecasts as well as modelling the global energy flows and tanker fleet distributions. The team has built a variety of procedural, statistical and machine-learning models that enabled us to provide the most accurate and comprehensive view of energy flows. We take pride in applying cutting-edge research to real-world problems in a robust, long-lasting and maintainable way. The quality of our data is continuously benchmarked and assessed by experienced in-house market and data analysts to ensure the quality of our predictions. You'll be instrumental in designing and building infrastructure and applications to propel the design, deployment, and benchmarking of existing and new pipelines and ML models. 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