Senior Software Engineer (Golang)

Dow Jones; Utrecht; Hybrid; EUR 70,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Office near Utrecht Central Station

Hybrid work model (3 days in office, 2

Free healthy lunch

Employee well-being program

MyWheels EV car sharing

Challenging, freedom-filled role

Job summary

Eco-Movement, part of Dow Jones, seeks a software engineer to design, test, and build Go-based features for validated location data of charging stations. The role focuses on evolving a foundational OCPI-based API, with PHP experience welcomed as a plus, and maintaining data integrity, performance, and security.

You will report to the Team Lead of the Locations team and collaborate across a fast‑growing, international group.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• At least 2 years hands-on Go or PHP (Laravel) development.

Responsibilities

• Rebuild critical components of our systems to transition from PHP to Go.
• Upgrade and maintain internal tools to improve data validation workflows.
• Proactively identify opportunities to improve product, architecture, and security, and influence the technical roadmap.

Skills

Go

PHP (Laravel)

Tools

Google Cloud Platform

MySQL

PostgreSQL

Kubernetes

Docker

Gitlab-CI

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 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
• 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!