Staff Software Engineer - Proactive Monitoring and Alerting (PMA)

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 opportunity to create an all-electric future and a trillion-dollar market.

At ChargePoint, we foster a positive and productive work environment by committing to live our values of Be Courageous, Charge Together, Love our Customers, Operate with Openness, and Relentlessly Pursue Awesome. These values guide how we show up every day, align, and work together to build a brighter future for all of us.

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

Software Engineering Manager

What You Will Be Doing

You will work for an international team (Europe and India) which handles the topic “Proactive Monitoring and Alerting (PMA)”.

With PMA products we drive supportability of monitoring the health, efficiency, and uptime of all ChargePoint’s physical EV charging stations, Fleet Operations and Energy Management services, scaling to millions of devices worldwide.

You will build tools to enable Support to diagnose and solve issues in real-time, while also rolling out products that provide analysis on infrastructure for customers. If you are experienced with Java/Kotlin, Kafka Streams and you like to connect Services via APIs, then you are the perfect addition to our team.

What You Will Bring to ChargePoint

We work in cross-functional teams, which means you will be in close communication with product management, program managers, and engineering managers to build technical requirements; subsequently, work with engineering teams to develop software design, etc.

You’ll work in a fast-paced environment, developing the product from minimum viability to world-scale maturity.

Ensure requirements are fully understood and implementation matches expectations.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience building back-end software systems

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or “STEM” Majors (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math)

• Good in CS fundamentals - data structures, algorithm design, problem-solving, OOP and domain-driven design

• Excellent skills in writing unit/integration tests

• Solid experience of RESTful API design and development, as well as SOAP

• Working experience with modern software architecture components (e.g. Distributed Systems, Containerization, Micro Services, etc.)

• Hands-on with Java/Kotlin, Spring Boot

• Working experience with relational and non-relational databases (Mongo, Postgres, MySQL, Redis)

• Knowledge of monitoring and tracing tools (Grafana, Sentry, ELK Stack)

• Comfortable with DevOps workflows

• Ability to speak and write English fluently, with German an advantage

Nice-To-Haves

• Kotlin experience (or keen to learn)
• Experience with OCPP Protocol (Standard for EV chargers)
• Apache Avro and Kafka Connectors
• React for full stack development
• GitOps (building GitHub pipelines, Terraform, Kubernetes, cloud-native deployments)

Our Tech Stack

• Backend: Java/Kotlin, Spring Boot
• Frontend: React
• Integrations: Kafka Streams, K-Tables, Stream Processors, Apache Avro, event-driven systems
• Data Management: MongoDB, Postgres, Time Series (Timescale/Prometheus)
• Monitoring: Grafana, ELK stack, Sentry

Location

Radstadt, Austria

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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