Senior Software Engineer (Backend developer)

About Us

With electric vehicles expected to be nearly 30% of new vehicle sales by 2025 and more than 50% by 2040, electric mobility is becoming a reality. ChargePoint (NYSE: CHPT) is at the center of this revolution, powering one of the world’s leading EV charging networks and a comprehensive set of hardware, software and mobile solutions for every charging need across North America and Europe. We bring together drivers, businesses, automakers, policymakers, utilities and other stakeholders to make e-mobility a global reality.

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 chance to be part of creating 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.

Discover what it’s like to help build the fueling network of the future - check out our Engineering Blog.

Reports To

Director, Software Engineering 

What You Will Be Doing

• You will build user-facing products and scalable architecture to handle thousands of charging sessions per second. As a product backend engineer at ChargePoint, you’ll be working on code that’s closest to the business from building and maintaining real-time communication with stations involving authentication, Charging Session Data and diagnostic data handling. You would be working with the industry standard protocols and help build, enhance and mature the EV industry protocol standards.

• Your work will impact electrical vehicle drivers, fleets, and operations teams as they use the ChargePoint network across the globe.

• You will work with your team members to build and collaborate on product requirements for the next generation of world-class EV technology products.

• Help make our team better by contributing to code reviews, documentation, and development process.

Responsibilities

• Write code for high-quality IoT gateway and backend applications, create robust applications, and develop functional prototypes quickly.

• Work with 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

• Work with the Product team to design and spec new functionality.

• Work with QA to understand and deliver the work in a given timeline.

• Participate in all phases of development, from design to implementation, unit testing, and release.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent

• At least 5 years of industry experience

• Strong CS fundamentals

• Familiarity with server architectures, web services (REST, SOAP) and distributed systems and microservices

• Experience with any server-side programming language like Golang, JAVA, PHP. Hands-on experience with Golang and PHP will be a plus

• Experience with Internet of Things, Cloud Infrastructure, Device and Network management will be a plus

• Exposure to architectural patterns of a large, high-scale cloud based application

• Understanding of web concepts such as session, cache, cookies, connection pooling, and so on

• Working knowledge of different kinds of databases i.e. Relational, In-memory, NoSql etc.

• Knowledge of source control tools

• Working experience of multithreading and multiprocessing applications.

• Working knowledge of Asynchronous processing and queuing system like RabbitMq.

• Experience in working with Docker and Kubernetes in an application will be a plus.

Location

Gurgaon, India (Remote can also be the option)

We are committed to an inclusive and diverse team. ChargePoint is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, national origin, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, marital status or any legally protected status.

If there is a match between your experiences/skills and the Company needs, we will contact you directly.

ChargePoint is an equal opportunity employer. 
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