Lead Software Engineer

Dow Jones; Utrecht; Hybrid; EUR 60,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model: 3 days in office, 2

Office next to Utrecht Central Station

25 vacation days

Medical Allowance

Well-being programs

EV car sharing with MyWheels

Job summary

Dow Jones Eco-Movement in Utrecht is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to design, test, and enhance our global location data platform for EV charging, with a focus on the OCPI-based API.

You will help transition backend services from PHP to Go, strengthen data integrity and security, and own critical components while collaborating with the Locations team in a hybrid setup (3 days in office, 2 from home) near Utrecht Central Station.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Hands-on Go or PHP (Laravel) development (2+ years).
• Strong experience with core stack: GCP, MySQL/Postgres, Kubernetes, Docker.
• Experience with testing and maintainable code.

Responsibilities

• Rebuild critical components and transition backend services from PHP to Go.
• Upgrade and optimize internal tools, improve data validation workflows, and deliver maintainable code.
• Identify opportunities to improve product, architecture, and roadmap with the product manager.

Skills

Go

PHP/Laravel

Testing

Tools

Google Cloud Platform

MySQL

PostgreSQL

Kubernetes

Docker

Gitlab-CI

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.

Utrecht, Netherlands

Full time

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Title: Lead Software Engineer

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. 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

• 4+ years of professional software engineering experience, including at least 2 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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Business Area: Dow Jones - Energy

Job Category: Software Product Engineering

Union Status

Non-Union role

Base Pay Range: €60,000 - €75,000

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.

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Req ID: 53794