Backend Engineer

About Plugsurfing, a scale-up owned by Fortum
Plugsurfing’s mission is to make car charging easy by building the platform that connects charging point operators to EV drivers. We believe that a zero-emission future is dependent on the electrification of personal transport, and our job is to help accelerate the adoption of electric vehicles by making charging an EV simple.
Plugsurfing is a multi-sided platform with a broad product portfolio that spans B2B SaaS for charging point operators as well as end-user mobile and web apps for EV drivers to find chargers, see prices, start charging and complete payment.





About the role
We are looking for an experienced backend engineer with expertise in the design, development, and implementation of JVM based backend applications to help us build the e-mobility platform of the future. In Europe alone, about 30 million EVs will buy billions of charging sessions per year by 2030, and Plugsurfing is the leading platform serving this growing charging market. This is a unique opportunity to become part of the next generation cloud based IoT product that is already serving millions of charging sessions each year.
The ideal candidate is experienced in building scalable applications on cloud platform with good quality and scalability.





Your role

• You will be working in a cross-functional autonomous product squad majorly with Java, React and AWS. The squad members work in close collaboration with the Product Manager throughout the whole development lifecycle with strong focus on the customer and usability while building features.
• Collaborate with your team to design and implement deployable features and products while enhancing the overall architecture
• You build it, You own it - Full development lifecycle responsibility, from conceptualizing through to daily operations
• Ensure good code quality confirmed by proper testing and static code analysis
• Ensure that features and services developed are performant and scalable
• Work with Engineering Manager to align on the technical roadmap for your product squad
• Engage with the squad members to share knowledge
• Mentor and coach other engineers in the team



Your qualifications
You are open-minded, flexible and thrive under challenging and changing conditions. To be a successful part of the Plugsurfing development team you will need a devops mindset. You must be a team player with can-do attitude which means taking responsibility, working transparently, bringing your own ideas to the table and getting things done both independently and with your team.


In addition, the following skillsets are required:


• Strong coding ability in Kotlin and frameworks like Springboot
• Experience in REST API development
• Experience of any cloud platform
• +6 years of experience within software development
• Ability to solve problems creatively and effectively
• Experience working in an Agile/Scrum development process
• Experience with distributed computing, cloud security, SaaS architecture, DevOps
• Experience in serverless architecture and Typescript is a plus

Some of the technologies you’ll get to work with:


• Kotlin, Java, Typescript, React, ReactNative
• Redux, Spring and Spring Boot
• Docker, Kafka, MariaDB, DynamoDB, Elastic search
• Microservices architecture on AWS



What we offer
We offer you a fast-evolving international working environment in the exciting e-mobility industry. You will take full responsibility from Day One and enjoy a flexible office/remote working policy. Our fast-paced scaleup company has offices in Berlin, Stockholm and Helsinki. This role can be located in Sweden (Stockholm) or in Germany (Berlin).
Please send your application and CV together with your salary request and preferred location by October 31st. We currently are not accepting offers from recruiters for this role and require candidates to apply directly. Applications submitted via recruiters will not be reviewed. Unfortunately we are also unable to sponsor visas and working permits for applicants outside of the EU at this point of time.