Senior Backend Engineer - Operator Team

Join a fast-growing, listed company with a purpose! Fastned owns and operates a network of 400+ fast charging stations across 10 European countries, allowing electric vehicle drivers to charge their car with 100% green energy in just 15 minutes. Our goal is a European network of 1000 fast charging stations in prime locations, where all electric vehicles can charge with renewable energy from the sun and wind. We have recently been voted best charging network in the UK, France and the Netherlands. If you want to make a difference and work in an informal, international scale-up environment with future prospects, then read on!

Your role

Fastned aims to accelerate the transition towards sustainable mobility by giving freedom to electric drivers. As a Senior Backend Engineer in the Operator team, you will help build and evolve the software that enables Fastned to operate one of Europe’s most reliable fast-charging networks.

The team owns Revolt Admin, Fastned’s internal operations platform used by Customer Operations, Network Operations and Field Operations to manage and monitor stations, chargers, charging sessions, users and payments. By improving this platform, you will have a direct impact on the scalability and reliability of Fastned’s network.

You will work closely with frontend engineers, product management, product design, other engineering teams and internal stakeholders. This role is ideal for an experienced engineer who enjoys taking ownership, navigating ambiguity and turning complex operational challenges into pragmatic, reliable solutions.

Your overall responsibilities include

• Designing, developing, testing and reviewing reusable, maintainable and scalable code for Revolt Admin and Fastned’s operational platforms;

• Delivering core Operator milestones that improve Revolt Admin, reliability of Fastned’s charging infrastructure;

• Working AI-first: using AI-augmented engineering, agentic workflows and AI tooling as a natural part of how you design, build, test and review, with judgement for where AI is a multiplier and where humans stay in the loop;

• Taking ownership from discovery to post-production;

• Taking operational responsibility for what you build, including monitoring, alerting and incident analysis;

• Helping improve engineering methodologies and best practices, and mentoring others as a senior engineer and technical sparring partner in the Operator team.

Requirements

Who we are looking for

In order to be successful in this role, you bring a strong sense of ownership and a pragmatic, proactive mindset. You enjoy working in a collaborative scale-up environment where things can change quickly and where taking initiative matters.

Additionally, you tick the following boxes:

• You have 7+ years of professional backend experience, with strong hands-on Kotlin and/or Java experience.

• You have experience building and operating microservices in production, using REST APIs, cloud platforms and relational databases.

• You are familiar with event-driven architectures and technologies such as Kafka.

• You have hands-on experience working with Elasticsearch.

• You care about reliability, maintainability and the operational impact of the software you build.

• You communicate clearly, collaborate easily across teams and enjoy mentoring others.

• You are comfortable with ambiguity, making pragmatic trade-offs and taking ownership beyond your immediate team.

• You use AI tooling as part of your engineering workflow, with sound engineering judgement.

• You are fluent in English and have an affinity with Fastned’s mission.

Nice to have

• Experience in e-mobility, energy, charging infrastructure or another operationally complex domain.

• Experience building software for internal, network or field operations.

• Experience with taking technical leadership for a project or domain.

Join us in building a better future

We work hard to change the world, but we don't forget to recognise & celebrate our successes, big and small. We focus on work-life balance, provide genuine work flexibility, and have family-friendly policies in place.

Electric mobility is new territory for you? Don’t worry!

As part of your onboarding, you will participate in a series of exciting workshops where you will learn everything about our industry and fast-charging infrastructure.

Our benefits package includes:

• Stock option plan - we believe in shared value creation.

• Pension plan (fully covered by Fastned).

• A training and development budget of €3,000 per year per employee, because development and training are important to us and our sector offers endless opportunities.

• In order to experience and enjoy the EV life, you get access to our fully electric vehicle fleet (all charging expenses covered), which is also for private use.

• 29 holidays. Additionally, we give you two mission days you can use to contribute to Fastned’s mission or to support a cause that is important to you.

• Going the extra mile for parents: We provide you with personalised coaching support before, during, and after parental leave, facilitated by Foundree.

• Understanding women's health is beneficial for all of us, fostering empathy, improving communication, and creating a more inclusive workplace. That's why we teamed up with Flouria, providing you with quick access to a broad range of women's health professionals.

• Daily lunches, snacks & drinks are provided at our office locations.

• Next to fun events year-round, we throw notorious Christmas parties and organise an amazing yearly trip abroad with all employees.

• Other perks include flexible working hours, full travel compensation and the working gear of your choice.

Interested in making an impact?

We would love to have a conversation with you!

Apply now, send us your CV and explain in your motivation letter why you’re excited about joining Fastned.

Here’s the next steps of the hiring process:

• Screening call with Recruiter

• Codility assignment and technical interview with our Senior Engineers

• Culture-fit conversation with the team

• Closing Coffee Chat with our Head of Engineering / Director of Product & Engineering

Then, it’s time to welcome you on board to Fastned!

Fastned stands for equity and inclusion. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, gender identities, sexual orientations, religions, neurodiversity, disabilities, parental status or any other protected characteristic that makes you unique.

If you have questions or need further information regarding your application, please contact our recruitment team via recruitment(at) fastned.nl