Software Engineer

Who are we?

Volvo Cars is a company on a mission; to bring traditional car manufacturing into a connected, sustainable and smart future.
Since 1927, we have been a brand known for our commitment to safety, creating innovative cars that make life less complicated for our consumers. In 2010, we decided to transform our business, resulting in a totally new generation of cars and technologies, as well as steady growth and record sales. Today, we’re expanding our global footprint in Europe, China and the US, and we’re on the lookout for new talent.
We are constantly pushing our own skills and abilities to drive change in the automobile industry like never before. We are looking for innovative, committed people to join us in this endeavour and create safe, sustainable and connected cars. We believe in the power of people and will challenge and support you to reach your full potential. Join us and be part of Volvo Cars’ journey into the future.

Would you like to influence and craft the technical strategy that helps Volvo Cars to grow and reach our goal of being an electric car company by 2030?

Excellent, then we would like you to join our team as Senior Backend Engineer! 

The Car Locator Engine (CLE) team is a part of the Global Online Experience (GOX) area and our mission is to help our customers acquire cars with rapid delivery; putting them in the Volvo of their choice faster, CLE is the backbone of Rapid Delivery for any digital channel. We support the rest of the organization in using this knowledge to serve the customers in the best possible way. We’re looking for someone that will help us craft a world class search ecosystem that spans across multiple product teams and clusters. We have only just begun this journey in earnest, and you’ll be joining us at a time where you can really have a great impact and help us set the tone for the next chapter in our company's history! 

 What you’ll do:  
* Contribute towards the development, testing, maintenance and integration of applications / systems
* Ideation and brainstorming sessions to devise creative and disruptive digital solutions; APIs and data solutions to drive toward implementation of those solutions
* Use patterns and leverage modern frameworks to build, maintain, and implement our solutions
* Gain knowledge of various development approaches and assisting with the design of ground-up projects and enhancements
* Occasionally play multiple roles (e.g. individual contributor, lead, teacher, mentor)
* Get to know the supported business area(s), have an awareness of related objectives and challenges
* Communicate technical concepts to technical and non-technical audiences
* Evaluate options and the performance tradeoffs / benefits
* Focus on accuracy and quality, while continuing to deliver code

Who you are:  
Professionally solved challenges with application development and implementation over the last three or more years with:
* C# and .Net programming
* Event-based systems (eg. Kafka, SQS, SNS, or similar)
* REST API Design and Implementation
* Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment (CI/CD)
* Relational and non-relational databases (MongoDB, Redis, Elasticsearch, etc)
* Kubernetes and Terraforming 
* Any CSPs (Azure/AWS/GCP)

Good if you have:
* Typescript, Apollo GraphQL, TypeORM, React

You:
* Develop unit tests and using version control
* Understand the Product development and Agile mindset 
* Adhere to coding quality standards
* Steer productive team communication and collaboration on problem solving

We offer our employees excellent benefits such as:  
* Plenty of leave to let you take time off for what's most important in life  
* Collective Agreement and ITP pensions  
* An annual allowance to spend on your health and wellbeing  
* A private health insurance