Senior Backend Developer – EV Charging Ecosystem

Key ResponsibilitiesDesign, develop, and maintain robust, scalable backend microservices using Java and Spring Boot.Build and evolve services supporting core EV charging workflows — charge session management, station status/availability, billing/tariff calculation, and CDR processing.Architect microservices with clear domain boundaries, well-defined APIs, and resilient inter-service communication (REST, gRPC, or messaging queues).Design and implement event-driven architectures using tools like Pub/Sub, Kafka, or similar for real-time data flows (e.g., charger telemetry, session updates).Deploy, manage, and optimize services on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) — GKE, Cloud Run, Cloud SQL, Pub/Sub, Cloud Functions, Cloud Storage, etc.Collaborate with Business Analysts and Product Managers to translate integration requirements (OCPP/OCPI, CPO/eMSP data flows) into technical designs.Ensure high availability and low-latency handling of real-time charger communication and transactional data.Write clean, well-tested, maintainable code following best practices (unit/integration testing, code reviews, CI/CD).Implement observability — logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting — using tools like Cloud Monitoring, Prometheus, Grafana, or Stackdriver.Design and manage relational/NoSQL data models (PostgreSQL, MySQL, Firestore, BigQuery) to support high-throughput transactional workloads.Participate in architecture reviews, capacity planning, and performance tuning for services handling high concurrent charger/session loads.Mentor junior developers, contribute to coding standards, and drive engineering best practices across the team.Troubleshoot and resolve production issues, including protocol-level (OCPP/OCPI) integration failures, with a strong sense of ownership.Required Skills & ExperienceStrong hands-on experience with Java (8/11/17+) and the Spring Boot ecosystem (Spring Data, Spring Security, Spring Cloud).Proven experience designing and building microservices architectures — service decomposition, API design (REST/gRPC), inter-service communication, and resilience patterns (circuit breakers, retries, timeouts).Solid experience deploying and operating applications on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) — GKE/Kubernetes, Cloud Run, Cloud SQL, Pub/Sub, IAM, load balancing.Experience with containerization (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes).Strong understanding of relational databases (PostgreSQL/MySQL) and experience with query optimization and schema design.Experience with message queues/event streaming (Pub/Sub, Kafka, RabbitMQ) for asynchronous and real-time processing.Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines (Cloud Build, Jenkins, GitHub Actions) and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform preferred).Solid grasp of API security, authentication/authorization (OAuth2, JWT), and secure service-to-service communication.Experience writing unit, integration, and contract tests; comfort with TDD/BDD practices.Strong understanding of distributed systems concepts — consistency, idempotency, fault tolerance, and scalability.Excellent debugging, performance tuning, and production troubleshooting skills.Preferred / Nice-to-HavePrior experience in the EV charging / e-mobility domain, especially working with OCPP and OCPI protocols.Experience integrating with Charge Point Operators (CPOs), eMSPs, or roaming hubs (Hubject, Gireve).Exposure to real-time device/IoT communication protocols (WebSocket, MQTT).Experience with NoSQL/analytical stores (Firestore, BigQuery, Redis).Knowledge of payment gateway integrations and PCI-DSS-aware system design.Experience with GraphQL APIs.Familiarity with Agile/Scrum practices and tools like JIRA/Confluence.EducationBachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (Master's a plus, not mandatory).