About the Role
We are looking for a Full-Stack Software Engineer to join our growing team! You will own features and components within our products, working closely with senior software engineers on scope, architecture, and cross-system tradeoffs. You will help build the technical and product foundation for our growing business, with direct mentorship from senior engineers as you grow into more ownership.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with colleagues and contribute your voice in product design sessions, architecture discussions, and code reviews.
- Design, implement, test, debug, and document work on new and existing software features, ensuring they meet business, quality, and operational needs.
- Take ownership of features, with support from SSEs on architecture or cross-system tradeoffs, understanding the ultimate goal and evaluating effort and priority in an agile environment.
- Use agentic coding tools to write clear, efficient, and maintainable code, growing your judgment on flexibility and scalability with guidance from senior engineers.
- Contribute to team productivity and process improvements.
- Use and integrate APIs to connect Plug with 3rd party platforms.
- Contribute to code review and pairing, and reach out to SSEs to spark good technical discussions - including how you use AI tools.
- Be an integral part of a close team of developers; this is an opportunity to grow quickly with direct mentorship from senior engineers as the team scales.
Requirements
- 3+ years of hands-on experience developing and delivering production applications.
- Solid proficiency in TypeScript across the full stack - backend, frontend, relational databases, and API/webhook integrations.
- Experience deploying and operating cloud-hosted applications; comfort with CI/CD pipelines and observability tooling, with interest in infrastructure-as-code (we use Terraform) and feature flag systems.
- Comfortable working in agent-first development workflows - defining clear acceptance criteria and reviewing AI-generated output with a high quality bar.
- A strong engineering quality bar - writing tests, participating in code reviews, and producing code that is readable by both humans and AI agents.
- Track record of owning work end-to-end: scoping, shipping, and measuring impact, with growing autonomy.
- Startup or fast-paced team experience is a plus.
- Authorized to work in the US for any employer.
- Prior experience in automotive or EV systems is a plus.
Skills
- TypeScript
- Backend development
- Frontend development
- Relational databases
- API integrations
- Webhook integrations
- Cloud-hosted applications
- CI/CD pipelines
- Observability tooling
- Infrastructure-as-code
- Terraform
- Feature flag systems
- Agent-first development workflows
- AI tools
Location
- Onsite - Santa Monica, CA
Work Type
- Full-time
- Salary
- Exempt
- In-person
Experience Level
- 3+ years of hands-on experience
Salary/Compensations
- $145,000 - $175,000
Benefits
- Health, Vision, and Dental insurance
- Daily lunch stipend
- Equity (based on role and performance)
- Unlimited PTO
- Fully stocked kitchen
- Dog-friendly office
- Ongoing opportunities for growth and development
- Relocation assistance will not be provided
- Sponsorship not available
About the Company
- Plug is an automotive fintech startup building the marketplace for electric vehicles.
- Consumers, dealers, and commercial partners trade in, sell, and auction used EVs through a platform built exclusively for electric, with nothing adapted from legacy automotive.
- Founded in 2023 and led by former Tesla executives, Plug has facilitated $100M in EV sales since launch and is backed by a $20M Series A from Lightspeed Venture Partners.
- We're building the most AI-native startup team in Los Angeles, full of operators, engineers, and ML researchers laying the transaction rails for the used EV market's exponential growth.
- You'll own a piece of the biggest infrastructure opportunity in automotive.
- You'll work on a platform built exclusively for EVs, with nothing adapted from legacy automotive.
- You'll be part of an AI-native company. We're rethinking how work gets done at a fundamental level.
- You'll work directly with operators who have scaled multi-billion dollar businesses in automotive, EV, and marketplaces.
- You'll have real ownership, high autonomy, and a direct line to company outcomes.
Equal Opportunity
- Plug is an equal opportunity employer.
- We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
- We believe diverse teams build better products - full stop.
