Python Developer - Meteo Team

Northpool | Python Developer - Meteo Team

Join our Meteo Team as a Python Developer and help build and optimize weather-driven forecasting pipelines across on-premise and Azure environments. You’ll work closely with experts across trading, data science, and meteorology to solve complex data challenges with real-world impact. Take the challenge and become a Python Developer - Meteo Team at Northpool!

As a Python Developer for the Meteo Team, you will play a key role in developing, maintaining, and optimizing our weather-based forecasting processes running both on-premise and in Azure. Working closely with colleagues from trading, data science, meteorology, and frontend development, you’ll contribute to the continuous improvement of our systems for data assimilation, delivery, and monitoring. We’re looking for a proactive team player who can build reliable, performant systems and solve technical challenges with an interest in meteorological and/or geographical databases.

Your goal? Providing fast and highly reliable systems for collecting and transforming meteorological data – to be used in our power models, dashboards, and other tools for traders to use in real-time.

To ensure a single, reliable source of meteorological data for the various trading desks within the company

Scraping, preprocessing, and archiving numerical weather predictions, live weather observations, satellite images, netCDF gridded data, timeseries, and any other meteorological data

Making data available through Snowflake, Kafka, and Postgres

Writing backend APIs for frontend applications

1-3 years of working experience in relevant roles

Experience with meteorological data, in particular numerical weather predictions

Continuous learning and development opportunities

A fun workplace, where no two days are ever the same

Want to see if this is your next challenge? Send your resume with your motivation to [staat bij de werkgever].

Location: For this vacancy, we need you to live in the Netherlands. The application procedure will take place at our office in Leiden.

Acquisition based on this vacancy is not appreciated.

Please submit your CV, motivation letter, and grade list (for junior positions), or contact us at [staat bij de werkgever].

We will respond to your application within two weeks.