Staff Software Engineer

Job Description

About the Team:

Eco-Movement, part of Dow Jones, is a leading global platform for EV charge point location and pricing data. Customers of the platform include navigation providers, charge point operators, eMSPs, and the public sector. As an independent platform with more than 1.5 million connectors in over 80 countries, Eco-Movement is in a unique position to support the electrification of the passenger and heavy-duty vehicle segments.

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About The Role

As a software engineer, you will design, test, and build new functionalities for one of our most foundational and critical products, validated and enriched location data of charging stations around the world. The primary vehicle of delivery to our clients is via our OCPI based API. For internal use, there is a Laravel UI using blade templates that will get more love towards the future. Your challenge is to further develop and maintain the applications, its data, and security architecture. You will report to the Team Lead of the Locations team at Eco-Movement. The main language experience that we are looking for is Go, though experience with PHP would be a plus. You will be using both intermittently.

You are free to use Claude Code and Gemini. We’re pretty sure AI is a great tool, but we’re absolutely convinced that each person that works at Eco-Movement owns the work they deliver. Your work is your signature, make sure you’re proud to sign it.

You Will

• Rebuild critical components of our systems to be ready for the future, play a pivotal role in transitioning our foundational backend services from PHP to Go, and ensure the integrity, performance, and security of data powering over 1.5 million EV connectors worldwide.
• Upgrade, optimize, and breathe new life into our internal tools to improve internal data validation workflows, while writing clean, readable, and highly maintainable code and taking full personal ownership of your deliverables.
• Proactively identify and propose opportunities to improve the product, architecture, systems (performance, scalability, security, etc.) and provide input on priorities with the product manager and (jointly) manage the technical roadmap.

You Have

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, including at least 4 years of hands-on Go or PHP (Laravel) development
• Strong technical capability with our core stack including Google Cloud Platform, MySQL, Postgres, Kubernetes, and Docker
• Experience with testing, and a passion for code maintainability and readability
• Experience with PHP is a nice-to-have, as we are transitioning away from it
• Familiarity with Gitlab-CI is a nice-to-have

Our Benefits

• Fun international team and frequent events;
• Dynamic scale-up vibe and lots of opportunities to make an impact;
• Our own office, next to Utrecht Central Station. We have a hybrid way of working with 3 days from the office and 2 days from home with Monday and Thursday as our mandatory office days with free healthy lunch;
• 25 vacation days;
• Medical Allowance
• Employee Well-being Support & Fitness Programs
• Membership of MyWheels EV car sharing service;
• A role with a lot of freedom, challenge, and opportunity – no dull moments, guaranteed!

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Equal Opportunity Employer

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.

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Business Area: Dow Jones - Energy

Job Category: Software Product Engineering

Union Status

Non-Union role

Base Pay Range: €70000 - €90000

We’re committed to offering competitive and flexible compensation to attract top talent. This pay range reflects our good faith estimate for the role and may vary based on a candidate’s experience, skills, location, and other relevant factors.

For bonus-eligible roles, targets are determined based on multiple considerations, including market benchmarks and individual contributions.

For benefits-eligible roles, we offer a comprehensive and competitive benefits package covering health, retirement, wellbeing, and more, along with optional benefits to meet the diverse needs of our employees.

Dow Jones is a global provider of news and business information, delivering content to consumers and organizations around the world across multiple formats, including print, digital, mobile and live events. Dow Jones has produced unrivaled quality content for more than 130 years and today has one of the world’s largest newsgathering operations globally.

It is home to leading publications and products including the flagship Wall Street Journal, America’s largest newspaper by paid circulation; Barron’s, MarketWatch, Mansion Global, Financial News, Dow Jones Risk & Compliance and Dow Jones Newswires. Dow Jones is a division of News Corp (Nasdaq: NWS, NWSA; ASX: NWS, NWSLV).

Req ID: 53508