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.
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.
Notable funding: Series C $34M (Jan 2024) led by Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital
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Company Overview
Problem Domain
Visibility and analytics for global seaborne energy (oil & gas) trading and shipping markets.
Founded
2016
Industry
Software Development
Funding Track Record
Series C- 2024-01-08
$34M
Debt Financing- 2024-10-22
Reported as a debt financing round
Investor Signal
“Backed by growth- and venture-focused investors including Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital, Notion Capital, Monashees, Metaplanet, FJ Labs and Communitas Capital”
Founders
What we do
Join the Team
Senior Software Engineer
On-SiteLondon, GB
On-Site • London, GB
Who you are
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
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
What the job involves
Benefits
A flexible working policy - accommodating both remote and home working, with regular staff events
Workplace Pension Scheme via The People's Pension
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
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Processing thousands of rich data points per second from many vastly different external sources, moving terabytes of data while processing it in real-time, running complex prediction and forecasting AI models while coupling their output into a hybrid human-machine data refinement process and presenting the result through a nimble low-latency SaaS solution used by customers around the globe is no small feat of science and engineering
This processing requires models that can survive the scrutiny of industry experts, data analysts and traders, with the performance, stability, latency and agility a fast-moving startup influencing multi-$m transactions requires
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 modeling 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
Working with software and data engineers, data scientists and market analysts, you’ll help bridge the gap between scientific experiments and commercial products by ensuring 100% uptime and bulletproof fault-tolerance of every component of the team's data pipelines.Vortexa was founded to solve the immense information gap that exists in the energy industry
By using massive amounts of new satellite data and pioneering work in artificial intelligence, Vortexa creates an unprecedented view on the global flows of oil and fuels in real-time, optimising the energy markets and enabling the society as a whole to use the natural resources of our planet to the benefit of all
