Software Engineer

"Founded in 1927, the Volvo Group is committed to driving prosperity and shaping the future landscape through sustainable transport, mobility, and infrastructure solutions. By offering trucks, buses, construction equipment, power solutions for marine and industrial applications, financing and services that increase our customers’ uptime and productivity.

Our headquarters are in Gothenburg, Sweden. Volvo Group shares are listed on Nasdaq Stockholm."

Transport is at the core of modern society. Imagine using your expertise to shape sustainable transport solutions for the future? If you seek to make a difference on a global scale, working with next-gen technologies and the sharpest collaborative teams, then we could be a perfect match. 

This is us - your new colleagues
To be successful and provide the best support to the factory, we work in a network and gather competences from different parts of the organization, both in GTO and Group Digital & IT.

We work in the Volvo Trucks factory in Gothenburg/Tuve and we closely collaborate with our business colleagues and promptly react on new requirements and local challenges. Our team builds and maintains digital solutions having different architecture: on top of core systems, as standalone applications, IoT/OT devices.
In our day-to-day work we use JavaScript, Thingworx, Python, Docker, Power Platform, SQL, C, Rust. We also utilize other technologies depending on the use cases.
We have an excellent opportunity to develop competences, practice emerging technologies and be part of innovative projects.

Role description
As a Software Engineer you will be involved in the following activities: understand and document business requirements, design technical solutions, write and test code, provide third-line support.
In this role you will gain an overall understanding of Volvo’s manufacturing IT systems (multiple domains like production, logistics, quality, environment etc). It will allow you to extend the core systems’ capabilities by building a new digital layer.
As stated above – our team is working with various technologies but we don’t expect you to be an expert in all of them. You will be involved in different projects and over the time you will have a chance to boost your development skills. You will work with frontend and backend development.
You will be a part of an agile cross-functional team which quickly reacts on business requirements. And of course you can always count on the support from our skilled and dedicated teammates.
Main responsibilities
Identify and prioritize digital initiatives which will improve operational efficiency
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand business requirements and translate them into effective technical solutions
Make sure that the created IT solutions are consistent with global and local processes
Participate in prototyping and development
Continuously work to improve team’s efficiency by utilizing CI/CD tools
Be creative and innovative
Required competences
Technical education on university level or similar experience
At least couple of years of experience as a Solutions Engineer/Developer or similar
(no problem if you are a graduate or will be one soon! You may still have some experience working on complex academic and hobby projects)
Innovative mindset and problem-solving attitude 
Eager to work with new technologies and processes
Team player – must be able to work with people at different levels of the organization and in a global team
Ability to run meetings and workshops
Have an genuine interest in working in a manufacturing environment
Knowledge of software development using Python or JavaScript/TypeScript or Rust
At least basic knowledge of SQL and some of RDBMS

As a plus we will consider:
Knowledge of React/Node.js/Linux
Interest in IoT, electronics and embedded development
Swedish fluency

Do you have any question?
Don't hesitate to contact hiring manager: Roman Dolanski, Digital Product Area Owner DD EBM Tuve, [email protected]
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Who we are and what we believe in 
Our focus on Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity allows each of us the opportunity to bring our full authentic self to work and thrive by providing a safe and supportive environment, free of harassment and discrimination. We are committed to removing the barriers to entry, which is why we ask that even if you feel you may not meet every qualification on the job description, please apply and let us decide.
Applying to this job offers you the opportunity to join Volvo Group. Every day, across the globe, our trucks, buses, engines, construction equipment, financial services, and solutions make modern life possible. We are almost 100,000 people empowered to shape the future landscape of efficient, safe and sustainable transport solutions. Fulfilling our mission creates countless career opportunities for talents with sharp minds and passion across the group’s leading brands and entities.