Full-Stack Software Engineer

Job Title: Full-Stack Software Engineer
Team: Engineering
Location: Onsite - Sawtelle (Between Santa Monica & West LA)
Employment Type: Full-time, Salary, Exempt
Reports To: Engineering Lead

About Plug
Plug is the marketplace for used electric vehicles. Consumers get an instant cash offer backed by battery-health data, and dealers across the US bid in real time on that inventory. Former Tesla executives founded Plug in 2023. We’ve facilitated over $150M in EV sales and raised a $20M Series A led by Lightspeed Venture Partners.

Why Plug

• 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.

The Opportunity
We are looking for a Full-Stack Software Engineer to join our growing team. You’ll report to our engineering lead and own features and components within our products, working closely with senior software engineers (SSEs) on scope, architecture, and cross-system tradeoffs. We’re building systems like AI-powered pricing intelligence, real-time connectivity to vehicle manufacturer APIs, auction applications, and data pipelines that aggregate EV-specific information from dozens of sources, all to make the wholesale EV market faster, smarter, and more transparent.

As a member of the team, you’ll help build the technical and product foundation for our growing business, with direct mentorship from senior engineers as you grow into more ownership. We’re building a culture that cares about collaboration, encourages intellectual honesty, celebrates technical excellence, and is driven by careful attention to detail and planning for the future. We believe diverse perspectives and experiences are key to building great technology and a thriving team. Sounds cool? Let’s work together.

What You’ll Do

• 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 trade-offs, understand the ultimate goal, and evaluate effort and priority in an agile environment.

• Use agentic coding tools to write clear, efficient, maintainable code, and grow 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 third-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.

What You’ll Bring

• 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 and 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 to a high standard.

• 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.

Not sure you should apply? Do it.
Research consistently shows that people from under-represented groups are more likely to talk themselves out of applying if they don’t meet 100% of the listed requirements. You don’t need to check every box. If this role excites you and you bring most of what’s listed under “What You’ll Bring,” we want to hear from you.

Compensation and Benefits
Annual salary: $145,000 to $175,000

Salary ranges come from independent, third-party benchmarking against national compensation data. Where an offer falls within the range depends on relevant experience, specialized skills, training and qualifications, current business needs, and market conditions. We review ranges periodically and may adjust them as the market changes.

Benefits & Perks

• Health, Vision, and Dental insurance

• 401(k) plan

• Equity

• Unlimited PTO

• Daily lunch and dinner stipend, plus a fully stocked kitchen

• Dog-friendly office and on-site EV charging

• 30-day remote work from anywhere policy

• Ongoing opportunities for growth and development

This full-time position is in-person, based in Sawtelle (between Santa Monica and West Los Angeles). We will not provide relocation assistance to successful candidates. We do not offer sponsorship at this time.

Acknowledgments
Plug is an equal opportunity employer. We don’t discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, pregnancy, age, marital status, military or veteran status, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law. Plug will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records in accordance with the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring and the California Fair Chance Act.