# Staff Data Engineer

We Are Sparta Sparta is the AI leader for commodity trading, home to Leonidas AI, the first operating system for oil and commodity traders. Backed by $42 million in Series B funding led by One Peak, with participation from returning investors FirstMark and Singular, the same investors behind AI leaders like Legora, Dataiku, and Synthesia. Most companies are building a chatbot on top of data. We've built an agent with an actual reasoning layer, grounded in years of proprietary market data and in-house trading expertise nobody else has. We're scaling fast, and it's an exciting time to join. From independents to multinationals, the world's leading commodity teams use Sparta and Leonidas AI to move faster, trade smarter, and stay ahead of the market. At Sparta, you'll be trusted to take ownership, backed by a team who wants you to succeed. AI is how we build here, not just what we sell. Good ideas move fast, and yours could go from staging to production in a couple of hours, whatever department you're in. You'll be challenged, supported, and given room to grow, building the AI that's changing how commodity trading gets done. Your work has reach. From shaping Leonidas AI, to powering sm

- **Id**: 744150
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/sparta-staff-data-engineer>
- **Role**: Data Science
- **Role family**: Data Science
- **Seniority**: staff
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: explicit
- **Locations**: London, United Kingdom, Barcelona, Spain, Madrid, Spain
- **Countries**: GB, ES
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 7
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-06-25T09:51:46Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-04
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-07T07:23:38Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 134
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 8523
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity, Hybrid work
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Oil & Gas, Financial Data & Market Intelligence

## Company

- **Id**: 445445
- **Name**: Sparta
- **Domain**: spartacommodities.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/sparta-4>
- **Size band**: 51-200
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

## Salary estimate

- **Min usd**: 96000
- **Max usd**: 219000
- **Period**: year
- **Method**: global_role_cell_scaled_by_country
- **Sample n**: 369

## Technologies

- **Apache Kafka** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **ETL/ELT** — Optional: no
- **Flink** — Optional: no
- **GCP** — Optional: no
- **Kotlin** — Optional: no
- **PostgreSQL** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Redis** — Optional: no
- **Spark** — Optional: no
- **TypeScript** — Optional: no
- **AI Agents** — Optional: yes
- **Apache Iceberg** — Optional: yes
- **dbt** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Repost count**: 1
- **Days open**: 134

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 7
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United Kingdom** — Iso: GB; Kind: country
- **Spain** — Iso: ES; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-11T13:41:39Z
- Event: close; At: 2026-09-14T21:03:02Z
- Event: reopen; At: 2026-11-04T12:53:32Z

## Visa

- Country: GB; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: Licensed UK visa sponsor (Skilled Worker); Route: Skilled Worker

## Liveness

- **Score**: 16
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.555
- **P room**: 0.28
- **Age days**: 134
- **Expected fill days**: 57
- **Reasons**: conf:2, win:tail, crowd:
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

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