At go-e, we have been pursuing the development of our vision with passion and strength from the very beginning. We are moving in an area that is characterized by breakthroughs and growth and that requires a lot of personal responsibility and creative solution finding. On our journey towards the energy transition, the mixture of innovation and security, regional and international, self-realization and professionalism is the ideal fuel for our mutual growth.

We are looking for an Engineering Team Lead to take over the Backend Team. You will be a player-coach. You will take high-level architectural and system design decisions as well as deep dive into code to help solve implementation problems.

The Backend Team is responsible for developing, maintaining, and operating services used to communicate with and processing data from our embedded devices.
Our existing codebase uses a mixture of Go, JavaScript, and TypeScript. The individual services are executed either as bare systemd services directly on Linux servers or deployed as containers either into a Docker runtime or even to a self-hosted Kubernetes cluster, where appropriate.

With your contribution, you will impact how people will charge their cars in the future. Come and join the team that is building the future of innovative charger solutions for e-mobility!

Your area of responsibility

1. Collaborate with the CTO, product owner, and stakeholders on product and technical roadmaps
2. Lead the backend team: plan tasks, set priorities, and align efforts with the project manager
3. Maintain and improve our cloud infrastructure and self-hosted Linux servers, proactively addressing technical challenges
4. Support developers' growth through 1:1s and regular team interactions
5. Designing and developing scalable backend services for web, embedded and mobile applications
6. Contribute hands-on to backend development across web, embedded, and mobile platforms
7. Ensure smooth integration with frontend and embedded systems
8. Support recruitment and onboarding to grow the team

It would be great if you have

• Solid experience in leading a team and coaching team members
• At least 5 years of experience developing backend applications
• Experience writing node.js and Go applications
• Experience with SQL database solutions like Postgres and time-series optimized databases like Clickhouse
• Familiarity with git-based repositories and CI/CD systems
• Experience with docker and container management
• Exposure to Linux as a server operating system - you feel comfortable using a terminal and associated shell
• Experience (or interest) in maintaining highly available environments and architect new scalable tech stacks
• Understanding of costs and priorities in making assumptions and solutions
• Excited to work independently and take responsibility while maintaining communication and collaboration with all stakeholders
• Eager to grow structures and processes in a company
• Able to communicate openly and in an effective manner
• Work-level proficiency in English

It would be even better if you have

• Experience in the field of EV charging solutions or physical products
• Experience managing a Kubernetes cluster
• Experience reading or writing C++ code
• Professional experience in both start-ups and grown-up companies

What we offer

• Be one of the key drivers of our core technologies
• A high degree of freedom in the execution of your projects
• Flexible working hours
• Mental well-being support
• Employee discounts on our products
• Corporate discounts on a variety of brands
• High-quality tools, e.g., soldering irons, measuring tools, oscilloscopes, server infrastructure for software experiments, 3D printers in all sizes, the largest of which can print entire chairs (1.5x1.5m)
• Regular group cooking at lunchtime or after work
• Regular group dining and drinking after work
• After-work/team-building events or similar

About go-e
We are a fast-growing, successful company in the field of e-mobility and have developed from a start-up to an internationally recognized player. From our headquarters in Carinthia, Austria, we have already expanded to around 20 European countries. With bold ideas based on our passion for innovative e-mobility solutions, we are already establishing future technologies today.