Senior Backend Engineer

Powerdot started with the vision that charging your car should be as easy as charging your smartphone. And so for that to happen chargers need to be available where people naturally spend their days. To bring this vision to life and accelerate it as fast as possible we have recently secured 150M from Antin Infrastructure Partners one of the worlds largest investment funds.

Our Mission is as simple as ambitious Accelerate Sustainable Mobility. And we do it by investing installing and operating EV chargers with an innovative business model akin to an Infra and Tech scaleup. So in a nuts we help businesses find the right charging solution that fits their customers needs and today weve joined forces with more than 1200 partners across Portugal Spain France Belgium Luxembourg and Poland where we have more than 2200 contracted locations.

Our Values: We are partner obsessed and create bespoke solutions to better serve their customers. We love the challenge of making EV charging simpler readily available and integrated with varied retail and service experiences.

Finally we are all about growing our network partner businesses teams professional development but mostly the EV ecosystem. So that sustainable mobility becomes a reality for all as fast as possible.

At the end of the day we believe that everything we are and all we want to be is and will be due to our Team composed by a collective of creative thinkers and doers with backgrounds from McKinsey UBS Investment Banking Oliver Wyman or Burger King to people responsible for scaling Uber Glovo and Lime at their earliest stages. We welcome empowered top performers that apart from sharing our mission and our values want to bring disruptive ways of thinking and become part of this amazing journey!

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with other teams to understand their requirements and ensure that the bac kend services meet their needs.
• Design develop and maintain microservices architectures using Java and Spring Boot.
• Implement AWS services such as EC2 S3 Lambda and RDS to ensure scalable and efficient operations.
• Create and optimise database systems both relational and nonrelational ensuring dat a integrity and performance.
• Work with messaging systems like RabbitMQ and Kafka for seamless interservice communication.
• Utilise containerization and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes to enhance development and deployment processes.
• Follow best practices and maintain high standards of code quality reliability and security.
• Provide technical guidance to junior engineers and participate in code reviews.

The Candidate we are looking for:

• Strong experience in building and deploying microservices architectures using Java and Spring Boot.
• Proficient with AWS services (EC2 S3 Lambda RDS).
• Deep understanding of database systems including experience with database design and optimization.
• Familiarity with messaging systems like RabbitMQ and Kafka.
• Knowledge of containerization and container orchestration using Docker and Kubernetes.
• Strong problemsolving ss and the ability to work independently or as part of a team .
• Excellent communication ss to effectively collaborate with crossfunctional teams and convey technical concepts to nontechnical stakeholders.
• Experience in the EV charging industry is a plus but not required.

Get to know our benefits!

• Private health insurance
• Gym p membership
• Flexible time (you own your time)
• Annual offsite last year it was in bidos dont miss the next one!
• Recurrent team buildings in our local teams

Last but not least at Powerdot we strongly believe that the best solutions and the most innovative ideas come from the coexistence of people with different backgrounds that reflect the diverse world we live in. We seek for a culture of diversity and inclusion a culture where equal opportunities and mutual respect prevail and where everyone has the opportunity to speak up challenge the status quo and make the difference.