Backend Developer Charging Cloud

Let us describe the challenge we offer

Polestar is blazing a new trail, dedicating ourselves to the development and refinement of electric vehicle performance. Your experience in Charging Cloud Backend Developer would be invaluable to us both in concept work and when working with current designs for increased customer satisfaction.

This position is located at our HQ, in Gothenburg. We understand that work-life balance isn’t easy, and of course, welcome our employees to work flexible hours and from home a couple of days per week if needed. We believe in empowerment.



What you’ll do

Propulsion software team is a part of the Polestar Propulsion Department, is a team with a mission to deliver results which exceed the customers’ expectations. The team consists of software engineers, calibration engineers and system designers. The area of responsibility spans from battery management software, inverter software and electric motor calibration, and on board charger software together with the charging end to end user experience. We work very closely with the ConX team do deliver end to end capable products to maximize the user experience.

We are now looking for a senior backend software engineer who is as experienced with designing scalable distributed backend architectures as with implementing and deploying said architectures in AWS, complete with implementing regression tests. You can create services and service layers that link existing backend APIs with new implementations to support front-end and connected-car software engineers in a pursuit to deliver the very best, and most stable Connected-Car services for our customers, including charging, security, vehicle-to-grid, login, logout, etc. You must consider uptime to be the highest priority and work together with the Vehicle Software Engineers to create complete system regression tests that verify each new feature and update that is staged and deployed.

Your responsibilities:

- Designing, validating and develop software related to charging in the vehicle but also support App development in cloud environments
- Build software and test the end to end experience with test vehicles
- Manage beta-testing and establish data-driven closed loop feedback of the performance, work with dashboards and metrics
- Push us in creating value and customer experience within the charging eco-system, develop functions and features that will lower the vehicle CO2 footprint by taking into account the CO2 footprint of electricity production and price.




Who you are

You have a strong will to create the future of electric vehicles - it’s probably fair to call you an EV nerd passionate about solving climate changes. You are enthusiastic, motivated, well-organized and driven. You’re not afraid to try new approaches and out of the box methods. You have a holistic view, including vision, business, and customers.

To be successful in this role, we believe you have:

- Security Best Practices
- GDPR, Privacy
- CI/CD, TDD, Agile Development, etc.
- Microservices, Kubernetes, Docker, Spring-boot, Apache Kafka, REST, etc.
- Git, Gerrit, Jenkins, etc. 


Personal fit will be of great importance in this recruitment, as we are actively working to build a team with diverse experience, gender and background.

At Polestar, you will be a part of a cross-functional and international team, with English as a natural language for written and spoken communication.


People at Polestar

We know that a change is needed. We also know that each one of us can help bring about that change. Our commitment to becoming climate-neutral by 2040 is just as important to us as being inclusive, diverse, and innovative. Together, we are creating, collaborating and experimenting to usher in a new era of sustainable mobility.

We are an electric performance brand, determined to improve the society we live in.



Is this you? If you are interested in joining the Polestar family, don't wait with submitting your application. The process of reviewing the applications will begin on 18th of August 2022 and you will be subsequently contacted regardless the outcome.

Are you ready for the journey? Which is electric by the way...