Senior Software Engineer

Want to drive digital change in automotive?

At Volvo Cars, we are making bold digital visions come true. We aim to lead in the automotive world by creating a digital ecosystem built around making our customers' lives less complicated. Now we are looking for curious, creative people who want to change the world through innovative thinking.

What You’ll Do

As a developer in our team you will build microservices to support our communications platform primarily using REST APIs. You will work with the discovery and delivery in an empowered product team. This will include rapid development of prototypes/concepts as well as regular product development to push development at Volvo Cars to the next level.You'll design and build applications based in Java and Kotlin and ensure the performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications. We deploy our applications in Kubernetes, our CI/CD is based on GitHub actions, ArgoCD and use tools like GitHub, Jager, EFK, Graphana among others. The applications interact with different queue and databases like Kafka, Artemis, REDIS, PostgreSQL just to name a few.You'll collaborate with other engineers in a cross-functional team (working on Android, iOS, quality and backend), Product, and UX to define, design, and ship new features as well as fix bugs and help maintain code quality, organisation, and automation.

What you’ll bring:

We believe that you have a profound experience in backend development, with a particular focus on Java and knowledge in C# since we are porting old technologies from C# to our new platform. Comfort in working within an information platform environment that is enhanced with Docker, Kubernetes, and Cloud technologies. Knowledge in Azure DevOps is required since we are migrating all our applications to Azure from AWS.A deep understanding of microservices architecture and Graph Federation. Proficiency in database technologies, including both SQL and NoSQL systems, is a must. Front-end development skills are considered a bonus.

To be effective in this role you need to take charge as well as be a collaborator. You should have the ability to drive and create commitment. It is important that you have integrity and a change management mindset.

How to learn more and apply:

We are continuously screening applications and will fill the position as soon as we find a good match, please submit your application. For questions regarding the recruitment process, please contact Senior Technical Recruiter Sara Zinad at: sara.zinad@volvocars.com. Please note that applications via email will not be accepted due to GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation).

Who are we?

Everything we do starts with people. Our purpose is to provide freedom to move, in a personal, sustainable and safe way. We are committed to simplifying our customers’ lives by offering better technology solutions that improve their impact on the world and bringing the most advanced mobility innovations to protect them, their loved ones and the people around them.

Volvo Cars’ continued success is the result of a collaborative, diverse, and inclusive working environment. The people of Volvo Cars are committed to making a difference in our world. Today, we are one of the most well-known and respected car brands, with over 40,000 employees across the globe. We believe in bringing out the best in each other and harnessing the true power of people. At Volvo Cars your career is designed around your talents and aspirations so you can reach your full potential. Join us on a journey of a lifetime as we create safety, autonomous driving and electrification technologies of tomorrow.

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Volvo Cars