Senior Software engineer

at  Volvo Cars

SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT THAT MAKES A DIFFERENCE

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.
This role is within our Commercial Digital team, which is using digital technologies to reinvent the experience of becoming a Volvo customer. You will be responsible for developing software for consumer facing and internal products across more than 100 countries. We create the end-to-end experience for online sales/subscriptions of cars, global campaigns as well as frameworks for other parts of Volvo cars. Your responsibilities will include rapid development of prototypes/concepts and mainly product development.

YOU AND YOUR SKILLS

You are a seasoned full stack software engineer, familiar with backend coding using Java, C# or Kotlin, and frontend coding using JavaScript or TypeScript. To succeed in this role, you should be comfortable with ambiguity in requirements and possess an iterative development mindset. You thrive in a continuous delivery environment and display a growth mindset. Your ability to write software that fellow engineers can understand, alongside your experience in deploying, running, and scaling code in production, sets you apart. You excel in co-creation practices like pair programming, show empathy towards users, fellow engineers, and co-workers, and maintain an open mind with a willingness to learn and help others learn.

WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU

You’ll be part of an amazing team that builds and improves Volvo Cars’ customer identity & access management platform. We strive to constantly ship relevant features that improve our customer journeys and support a secure experience of Volvo Cars’ digital services. In the team, we aim to keep things simple and focus on what matters most, while at the same time making sure we learn new things and have a lot of fun together. If you are looking for an exciting opportunity and this sounds like a team that fits you, we would love to hear from you!

In this role, you will work with Microservices & Event Driven Architecture, leveraging your knowledge in Java or C# and their related ecosystems. You’ll be responsible for choosing the right designs for given problems, deploying and managing applications using Kubernetes in a cloud setting (Azure or AWS is a big plus), and developing UIs with HTML and CSS using your expertise in TypeScript and JavaScript. Additionally, you’ll:

• Build and maintain applications using frameworks such as React or Next.js
• Implement and manage micro front ends and BFFs