Job description
Senior Software Engineer (f/d/m)
Company Overview
Digital Charging Solutions GmbH (DCS) is a significant player in the e-mobility space, providing innovative and fully digital solutions for charging electric vehicles. As a subsidiary of BMW Group, DCS offers white-label solutions to support electromobility strategies for OEMs and fleet operators.
Job Summary
Our engineering domains at DCS build and operate the platform that powers EV charging for some of the world's largest automotive and mobility brands. As a Senior Software Engineer you sit at the centre of how a team turns defined problems into reliable, production-grade software, and you are one of the people the platform runs on day to day.
Key Responsibilities
- Frame and own the design and implementation of features and components within your team from understanding the business need through delivery and post-release.
- Owning the system design of the components and systems your team is responsible for.
- Meet the team's engineering standards consistently and reinforce them through your own work and your reviews.
- Your code is production-ready.
- You use AI tools as a genuine part of your daily workflow. Claude Code is our primary tool.
- You take part in refinement proactively rather than waiting for fully specified tickets.
- You apply distributed systems fundamentals soundly within the systems your team builds, and you own those systems in production.
Requirements / Qualifications
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with clear evidence of owning features and components end to end within a team.
- Solid foundation in the JVM (Java and Kotlin).
- Frontend experience (React, TypeScript, Node.js) is a strong plus. We work full-stack, and we expect engineers to pick up frontend work quickly where the role calls for it.
- Production experience with event-driven systems; hands-on experience with Kafka is a strong plus.
- Working command of distributed systems fundamentals: idempotency, at-least-once vs exactly-once tradeoffs, schema evolution, partitioning.
- Comfortable applying common patterns (event-driven, API gateways) and a developing sense of when not to.
- Sound database judgment with relational (PostgreSQL) and non-relational stores, including data modelling and query performance.
- A track record of delivering features and components to production reliably, with appropriate unit, integration, and end-to-end testing.
- Able to manage your own delivery: estimating work, sequencing it, raising delivery risks early, and resolving cross-team technical dependencies.
- Comfortable owning system design at team scope: producing designs during refinement using the C4 model, keeping them current, and aligning them with a domain target architecture.
- Familiar with how engineering delivery is measured (e.g. DORA metrics, stability, SSDLC compliance, velocity and predictability) and able to keep your own work healthy against it.
- Effective use of AI coding tools in your daily workflow. We use Claude Code; experience with similar tools (OpenAI Codex, opencode, Cursor and others) is fully transferable.
- Familiarity with cloud service providers, ideally Azure.
- Comfortable with container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes).
Salary & Benefits
- A unique opportunity combining the energy of a scale up with the power of BMW, Mercedes Benz Mobility & bp.
- Working on products & services with a high social impact.
- An international team of talented people who love what they do and live a collaborative spirit.
- An open minded culture with room for growth and the freedom to bring in own ideas.
- Subsidized gym membership.
- Subsidized office lunch benefit.
- Personal development budget for your professional growth.
- Monthly mobility budget.
- Up to 2 days of home office in a week.
- Offsite/ team events & much more and modern, sunny offices in Berlin & Munich.
- Delicious coffee & tea, fresh fruits and an office dog friendly environment.
Equal Opportunity Statement
At DCS we acknowledge the value of diversity, promote equality and challenge unfair discrimination. We strive to create an inclusive work environment, safe for anyone regardless of their gender identity, sexual orientation, abilities, ethnicity or race. We have the clear goal of driving diversity and inclusion across all dimensions and treat each applicant with the same respect and consideration.
