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.
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 strong expertise in PHP (CodeIgniter or Symfony) and React, building scalable and maintainable applications.
- Experience with Python or Node.js is a strong plus.
- Strong knowledge of MySQL/PostgreSQL and messaging platforms such as Kafka or RabbitMQ.
- Proven expertise in backend development, object-oriented design, and scalable API development.
- Hands-on experience building and operating distributed, event-driven systems.
- Commitment to clean code, best practices, and source control using Git.
- Strong collaboration and communication skills, with a growth mindset and openness to feedback.
- Experience leveraging AI-powered development tools is an added advantage
Bangalore, Gurgaon, India
We are committed to an inclusive and diverse team. ChargePoint is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, national origin, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, marital status or any legally protected status.
If there is a match between your experiences/skills and the Company needs, we will contact you directly.
ChargePoint is committed to fostering an inclusive workplace that welcomes and supports all qualified individuals. In alignment with this commitment, we ensure that persons with disabilities are provided with reasonable accommodations throughout the employment process.
If you need a reasonable accommodation to participate in the application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, or to access any other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact us at [email protected].
ChargePoint is an equal opportunity employer.
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Skills Required
- 5+ years of software engineering experience
- Deep expertise in PHP
- Experience with modern frontend frameworks, specifically React
- Strong experience with relational databases, including MySQL and PostgreSQL
- Experience with messaging or event-streaming platforms, including Kafka and RabbitMQ
- Backend development and object-oriented programming experience
- Experience designing scalable APIs
- Experience building, maintaining, and scaling event-based distributed applications
- Clean, readable coding practices
- Strong version control and source code management skills using Git
- Excellent collaboration skills and ability to work effectively in a team environment
- Willingness to embrace an open feedback culture
ChargePoint Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about ChargePoint and has not been reviewed or approved by ChargePoint.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is presented as comprehensive, with full medical, dental, and vision plus programs like EAP, life/AD&D, disability, and tax‑advantaged FSAs/HSAs. This core coverage serves as a strong foundation even when other elements feel mixed.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Employees can participate in an ESPP and may receive discretionary equity awards, and commentary highlights equity as a meaningful part of total compensation. In a stock‑centric pay mix, this can provide upside for those who value equity exposure.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — On‑site EV charging, stocked kitchens, pet‑friendly offices, and fitness amenities are called out as everyday perks. These lifestyle benefits align with the company’s mission and can enhance the day‑to‑day experience for office‑based staff.
ChargePoint Insights
What We Do
Electric mobility is the smart choice. We make it the easy one, too. So easy that someone plugs into our network every 2 seconds. Since 2007, we’ve focused solely on building the best electric vehicle (EV) charging experience for everyone involved in the shift to electric. Join us in shaping the future of mobility. If you'd like to learn more about what it's like to build the new fueling network, check out our Engineering Blog: www.chargepoint.com/engineering
