Back-End Developer - Insight Lab

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.

Insight Lab
Within Volvo Cars Open Innovation Arena, Insight Lab created itself three years ago as an Internal Start-Up and has since then proven its strong value to many thousand collaborators. Now Insight Lab is quickly scaling up, and we need you to help us redefine our organization as an established Lab as well as our main product, UNIFY, Volvo Cars own Knowledge Graph platform. 

Insight Lab enables Volvo Cars to fearlessly ride dependencies and complexity. We give people decision-making superpowers by revealing all sorts of actionable insights hidden within Volvo Cars data sources. We believe knowledge can be made available to everyone. We do that by effectively breaking silos throughout the company with the help of the exciting and limitless graph technologies and graph data sciences.

Are you an explorer, working beyond the edges of your job description? Are you not scared in front of seemingly impossible challenges and ready to go all-in for them, daring to take risks and grow?

At Insight Lab you will work in a friendly, self-organizing, cross-functional team with a strong feeling of co-ownership. Insight Lab is a hybrid workplace enabling for home, on-site and off-site working. Here is the place where creativity will be valued in everything you do and however you do it. And you will join us to be an active co-creator of the Insight Lab experiment.

What You’ll Do
You will be a key member of Insight Lab, Volvo Cars expert organization for all Graph Technologies related matters. As part of our Back-End team you will be responsible for developing intelligent and robust Graph Applications. Your main role will be to develop within UNIFY, Volvo Cars Graph Intelligence Platform, a new application dedicated to delivering insights from our Product Engineering platform. You will integrate external data systems to UNIFY by consuming their APIs, you will process the data and feed it to a dedicated graph database using queries developed by one of our graph developers and you will provide graph-powered insights to the UNIFY Front-End and to other applications through the UNIFY API.

You will be working both with the product Engineering team (to specify the application) as well as with your Insight Lab graph and front-end development teammates. You will be managing your CI/CD pipeline.

Required Skills
•    Good understanding of both relational and non-relational databases
•    Knowledge and hands-on experience of algorithms and data structures on real data
•    Knowledge of RESTful APIs development
o    JAX-RS – Jersey - springboot experience is a plus
•    Experience in consuming APIs with recent authentication techniques/practices
•    Object-oriented programming languages to create and enhance web applications backends.
•    Build tools as Maven or Gradle or Ant
•    Good understanding of software design patterns
•    Experience using modern development tools (e.g. Git, GitLab or GitHub etc.) within a development team.

Meritorious Skills (any of the following)
•    Linux server administration, bash
•    Work collaboratively to define infrastructure and deployment requirements.
•    Define and control CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins.
•    Be able to containerize your applications in Docker and deploy them in our Kubernetes cluster.

How to Learn More and Apply 
Welcome with your application as soon as possible, at the latest 2022-08-26. Please note that due to GDPR we do not accept any applications via email. 

For questions about the position please contact Open Innovation Arena Team Manager Henrik Wiberg at henrik.wiberg@volvocars.com or Insight Lab Team Leader Fabien Batejat at fabien.batejat@volvocars.com . For questions regarding the recruitment process, please contact Senior Recruiter Sandra Viklund at sandra.viklund@volvocars.com .