Senior Software Engineer, Electra
Backend
3 days a week in office
Fast charging stations for electric vehicles
Open for applications
Fast charging stations for electric vehicles
201-500 employees
Open for applications
3 days a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
To reinvent charging to accelerate the transition to sustainable mobility.
Role
Who you are
- You have 5+ years of experience as a backend software engineer, with a strong track record of designing, shipping and operating production-grade distributed systems
- You bring strong technical judgment, ownership and attention to reliability, data consistency, edge cases and operational workflows
- You are comfortable integrating with third-party systems and APIs, and you know how to keep internal data coherent when external partners are slow, unreliable or non-compliant
- You are a fast learner, comfortable entering a complex domain (EV roaming, payments, invoicing) and collaborating closely with product, operations, finance and external partners
- Experience with Go, Ruby on Rails, AWS, event-driven architectures, OCPI/OICP or invoicing systems is a plus, not a hard requirement
- You are fluent in both English and French
- This role is based in Paris
- Even if your profile doesn't match 100% of every criterion, we encourage you to apply
What the job involves
- Join Electra's Roaming squad in Paris as a Senior Software Engineer Backend
- The squad owns everything that lets a driver charge beyond our own network and get billed correctly: OCPI/OICP roaming with dozens of partner operators, our Go-based eMSP service, payments, invoicing and dynamic pricing at European scale
- Your mission: build and operate the backend systems that make Electra's roaming reliable, interoperable and ready to scale to thousands more charging points across Europe
- Design, ship and maintain the backend services and APIs behind roaming and our eMSP: OCPI 2.2.1 and OICP integrations, real-time synchronisation of partner networks (locations, tariffs, sessions, CDRs) and the flows that turn a charging session into a correct invoice
- Work hands-on across our stack: Go for performance-critical services, Ruby on Rails for business logic, PostgreSQL and TimescaleDB, NATS and Redis for messaging and caching, all deployed on AWS with Datadog observability
- Take interoperability, data-consistency and reliability challenges from discovery through rollout: partners with variable uptime, non-compliant protocol implementations, high-volume real-time updates, and follow through after release with Ops, Finance and partner teams
- Make pragmatic technical trade-offs, strengthen observability and incident prevention, and keep the roaming platform available and accurate as volumes grow
- Simplify architectures, improve performance and reliability, and mentor peers while staying a hands-on individual contributor
- Use modern engineering practices and AI-assisted tooling responsibly to accelerate delivery while protecting quality, maintainability and technical judgment
Our take
As more people make the change to electric vehicles, public charging stations are in high demand. Electra is revolutionising electric vehicle charging with its installation of fast charging stations across major and medium-sized urban areas across Europe. In addition to the obvious benefit of having access to a fast-charging station, the company’s mobile and web application makes finding a station as simple as possible with its unique features.
The company has received support and recognition from the French government, joining the French Tech Next40, a government support program dedicated to the most promising French scale-ups and future European heavyweights.
The company saw a substantial injection of funding in mid-2022 that has enabled it to accelerate its coverage of France and further expand across European markets in Belgium, Switzerland, Austria, Italy, and more. Planning to deploy 8,000 charging stations by 2030, the young company secured a $430 million green loan facility in 2025 to accelerate its progress.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Jan 2024
$341.9m
SERIES B
Jun 2022
$180m
SERIES A
Total funding: $538.7m
Company benefits
- An attractive fixed + variable package (assessed and paid quarterly) + BSPCE
- New offices in the 2nd arrondissement in Paris
- Alan Mutual (50% covered by Electra)
- Restaurant vouchers (Swile Card: €10/day covered at 50%)
- 25 days of CP + 12 days of RTT
- Collective agreement (SYNTEC: holiday bonus, exceptional leave days, etc.)
- An event every quarter with the entire Electra team
- CSE platform, with lots of advantages (culture, sport, etc.)
Company HQ
Vivienne, Paris, France
Leadership
Aurelien de Meaux
(Co-Founder & CEO)Currently a Member of Reseau Entreprendre Paris. Previously co-founded Cheerz where they served as Co-CEO for over 10 years.
Julien Belliato
(Co-Founder & Deputy CEO)Former Project Director at Allego and Veolia, also worked as a Consultant at Bain & Company.
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