Senior Software Engineer

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.

Reports To

Software Engineering Manager

ChargePoint is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to help build and scale the software platform powering the world’s largest EV charging network. In this role, you will leverage your expertise in distributed systems and full-stack development to drive the transition to electric mobility. Your work will directly impact the stability, performance, and scalability of solutions used by thousands of EV drivers globally.

What You Will Be Doing

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will join one of our teams to help maintain and enhance our cloud-based software platform for e-mobility. You will play a crucial role in ensuring the stability, performance, and scalability of the platform, working with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality features and improvements. Success in this role means balancing technical excellence with pragmatic solutions, writing clean code, and leading technical initiatives across the engineering organization.

What You Will Bring to ChargePoint

• Collaborate with other software developers to align on project goals, architecture, and delivery timelines.
• Implement and maintain scalable software solutions using PHP, balancing technical excellence with pragmatic solutions to deliver business value.
• Leverage GitOps, Kubernetes, and other cloud-native tools to streamline deployment and infrastructure management.
• Participate in architectural discussions, bringing forward innovative ideas and constructively challenging others’ proposals.
• Design and develop robust, secure, and highly available APIs for internal and external consumption.
• Build and maintain responsive, user-friendly frontend components and interfaces using React.
• Conduct thorough code reviews to ensure code quality, readability, and adherence to engineering best practices.
• Mentor and guide team members, fostering a culture of continuous learning and technical excellence.
• Troubleshoot and debug complex issues in production environments, ensuring high availability of our distributed applications.
• Optimize application performance, database queries, and system architecture to support a rapidly growing global user base.

Requirements

• 5+ years of software engineering experience with deep expertise in PHP and modern frontend frameworks, specifically React.
• Strong experience working with relational databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL) and messaging/event-streaming platforms (Kafka, RabbitMQ).
• Proven track record in backend development, object-oriented programming, and designing scalable APIs.
• Hands-on experience building, maintaining, and scaling event-based distributed applications.
• Commitment to writing clean, readable code with strong version control and source code management skills using Git.
• Excellent collaboration skills with the ability to work effectively in a team environment and a willingness to embrace an open feedback culture.