Since our founding in 2007, ChargePoint has focused solely on making the transition to electric easy for businesses, fleets and drivers. ChargePoint offers a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to create an all-electric future and a trillion-dollar market.
Join the team that is building the EV charging industry and make your mark on how people and goods will get everywhere they need to go, in any context, for generations to come.
Senior Director, Software Engineering
What You Will Be Doing
As a senior member you need to be someone whom team can look up for guidance both technically and as a mentor for carrier growth.
As a member you will be involved in major initiatives and opportunities where you will be required to show your well-rounded skills in communication, technology and execution to take a project from inception to general availability to customers.
You will be key contributor to do design and bringing in industry leading standard(s) and solution(s) to help design new solutions and help scale ChargePoint to support real time communications with millions of charging stations.
As a member of Energy Management team, you will be working as a representative of the Cloud platform services. You are expected to execute initiatives by reaching out to cross functional team(s) like Product, Embedded platform, Quality, Support and Operations and to not just resolve their concerns but work with them to define and build better solutions.
You ll work on code that s closest to the business. This includes building and maintaining real-time Energy Management solutions, providing a dynamic and real-time solution that maximizes efficiency of EV charging.
As a senior member you are expected to make our team better by contributing to code reviews, documentation, and development process. You would also be a champion of overall organizational principals in both defining and upholding them.
What You Will Bring to ChargePoint
Design and write code for high-quality Realtime applications, create robust applications, and develop functional prototypes quickly.
Introduce new and cutting-edge technologies to help ChargePoint cloud make scalable and highly available solutions to handle large amount of real-time data and communication.
Mentor junior developers and continuously improve software engineering practices
Cultivate and suggest ideas for the extension of current systems to new products and services
Identify opportunities for further enhancements and refinements to standards, processes and systems
Work with the Product team to design and spec new functionality.
Participate in all phases of development, from design to implementation, unit testing, and release.
Requirements
Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent degree or experience
At least 7 years of industry experience, preferably in e-mobility
Experience with a JVM language, preferably Kotlin but Java is fine too
Experience with either Spring Boot or Kafka (Kafka Streams)
Familiarity with web services (REST, gRPC, WS ), distributed systems, micro services and domain-driven and event-driven design
AWS or any other cloud dev experience is important
Experience with Go, Typescript is a plus
Familiarity with Kubernetes, NoSQL , GraphQL or Prometheus are a plus
Working knowledge of different kinds of databases i.e. Relational, In-memory, NoSql etc.