Lead Software Engineer (Golang)

About the Team: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) developmentStrong technical capability with our core stack including Google Cloud Platform, MySQL, Postgres, Kubernetes, and DockerExperience with testing, and a passion for code maintainability and readabilityExperience with PHP is a nice-to-have, as we are transitioning away from itFamiliarity with Gitlab-CI is a nice-to-haveBase Salary: €60,000-€75,000Our BenefitsFun 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;25 vacation days;Medical AllowanceEmployee Well-being Support & Fitness ProgramsMembership of MyWheels EV car sharing service;A role with a lot of freedom, challenge, and opportunity – no dull moments, guaranteed!Learn more about all our EMEA Benefits