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# Staff Software Engineer

- **Company:** Dow Jones
- **Location:** Utrecht, Netherlands
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** €5,833.0 - €7,500.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** PHP (Programming Language), Geographic Information Systems, Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Cyber Security, Data Validation, Data Security, Laravel, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Software Engineering, Google Cloud, Gitlab-ci, Kubernetes, Docker
- **Published:** June 12, 2026
- **Apply:** https://nl.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=4f39aef8dcadfcdc

## About the Role

Do you have experience in Scalability?, * 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, including at least 4 years of hands-on PHP (Laravel) or Go development

 * Strong technical capability with our core stack including Google Cloud Platform, MySQL, Postgres, Kubernetes, and Docker
 * Experience with testing, and a passion for code maintainability and readability
 * Experience with Go is a nice-to-have, as we are transitioning towards it
 * Familiarity with Gitlab-CI is a nice-to-have

## Description

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. For internal use, there is a Laravel UI using blade templates that will get more love towards the future. 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 PHP, though experience with Go would be a huge plus as we are transitioning towards it.

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., * Fun 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 Allowance
 * Employee Well-being Support & Fitness Programs
 * Membership of MyWheels EV car sharing service;
 * A role with a lot of freedom, challenge, and opportunity - no dull moments, guaranteed!


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