Lead Software Engineer (PHP)

Dow Jones; Utrecht; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model with 3 office days

Free healthy lunch on office days

Office next to Utrecht Central Station

MyWheels EV car sharing

Employee well-being & fitness programs

Job summary

Eco-Movement, part of Dow Jones, is building the data-driven EV charging platform in Utrecht. As a software engineer, you will design, test, and build core client-facing apps and the Data Retrieval Platform.

You will optimize the Data Verification Service and help expose large utilization datasets while shaping the architecture behind APIs and data pipelines. Hybrid work with three days in the office and two from home.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of professional software engineering with PHP (Laravel)
• Go experience is a plus
• Experience with testing and maintainable code
• Strong communication and teamwork

Responsibilities

• Enhance the Data Verification Service by adding data sources and improving the matching process
• Innovate with utilization data to expose large datasets for customers
• Architect client-facing apps and backend APIs for DVS and Partner Portal
• Rebuild and optimize critical components for performance, scalability, and security
• Drive roadmap input with product management

Skills

Team player

Quality-minded

Adaptive learner

Effective communicator

Tools

PHP

Go

Laravel

Gitlab-CI

Google Cloud Platform

MySQL

Postgres

Kubernetes

Docker

Job description

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.

To learn more about us, check out this page.

About the Role:

As a software engineer, you will design, test, and build new functionalities for our core client-facing applications. You will be a key player in optimizing our Data Retrieval Platform. This is the central portal where clients access, analyze, and download current and historical datasets on the global EV charging market, hardware distribution, and pricing. You will also help build our Data Verification Service. With roughly 41% of EV chargers currently displaying errors on public maps, you will help build the system that automatically catches and fixes these inconsistencies across platforms like Google and Apple Maps, directly eliminating driver frustration and lost operator revenue. You'll work on designing and building the data architecture behind these high-impact applications, the APIs serving the frontend, and ensuring our customers can reliably consume incredibly large datasets. The main language experience that we are looking for is PHP, though experience with Go would be a huge plus as we are transitioning towards it.

You Will:

• Enhance the Data Verification Service (DVS): Drive functional improvements to the DVS by adding new data sources and improving the matching process.
• Innovate with Utilization Data: Build a new product to expose utilization data, tackling the architectural challenge of making this exceptionally large dataset easily accessible and digestible for our customers.
• Architect Client-Facing Apps: Take ownership of the data architecture and frontend-serving APIs behind our Data Retrieval Platform, DVS, and Partner Portal to ensure reliable data consumption.
• Rebuild & Optimize: Rebuild critical components of our systems to be ready for the future, and proactively identify and propose opportunities to improve the product, architecture, and systems (performance, scalability, security, etc.).
• Drive the Roadmap: Work with the product manager and provide input on priorities and (jointly) manage the technical roadmap.

You Have:

• PHP experience: 4+ years of professional software engineering experience, including at least 2 years of hands‑on PHP (Laravel) development on professional projects (for businesses or open source).
• Tech-Savvy Developer: Our stack uses PHP (Laravel), Go, Gitlab-CI, Google Cloud Platform, MySQL, Postgres, Kubernetes, Docker, and more. It's nice if you're already familiar with our stack, but because you're experienced, we assume you'll quickly learn new tools if needed;
• Quality-Oriented: Have experience with testing and passionate about code maintainability and readability;
• Team Spirit: Accountable, an effective communicator and a true team player;
• Adaptive Learner: Embrace a growth mindset - open to feedback, eager to learn, and always in sync with the latest technical advancements.
• 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;
• 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!