Backend engineer

Let's create the future together.
At Volvo Cars, we believe that being curious and truly committed to understanding people is the key to future success. We are people who care about other people, working together to create new technologies and innovations for safe, sustainable and convenient mobility.

Third Party Developer Experience, Sweden 
What is in it for you? 
Sustainable transportation and mobility together with electrification are some of the core goals at Volvo Cars in our journey towards a more sustainable future and our goal to provide safe, sustainable, and personal travel. In line with our ambitions, we understood that our vehicles and related software ecosystem are a crucial platform to integrate third-party products and services to contribute to a more sustainable economy. 
 For such a mission at Volvo Cars, we, at the Third Party Developer Experience cluster, are looking for an engaged and self-going engineer to join us and help us build and shape our partner technical capabilities. You will be joining at a time where we are at the beginning of shaping and creating a high-quality ecosystem of products and services for partners of Volvo Cars.  
Our goal is to augment the capabilities and functionality of Volvo vehicles for our customers. And we do this collaborating with other teams in the organization to enable internal and external makers, develop APIs, and support the rollout of portals and documentation.  
We are a culturally gender-diverse team of engineers and product managers, with varied backgrounds in computer science, informatics, and electronics, focused on solving problems rather than just talking about them.  
Our portfolio includes APIs, emulators, documentation and open data, and our well-known safety research database. We are also eager to highlight our expertise and ideas and participate in internal hackathons as well as external competitions - sometimes, getting an award.  
What will you be doing? 
Put yourself in the shoes of a software architect and assess the design, implementation, and deployment needs of a containerised cloud infrastructure. 
Be part of the Volvo Cars Third Party Developer Experience cluster and together with your colleagues and peers you will enable a first-class API platform in the cloud. 
Use patterns and leverage modern frameworks to build, maintain, and implement the products and services within the Third Party Developer Experience cloud platform. 
Participate in design and development tasks, assist your peers with operational and implementation issues. Be eager to communicate your findings and learnings. 
Be data-driven and work with modern software principles evaluating options, performance trade-offs and welcome exploring, trying, and testing new technologies.  

Who are you? 
You have either a university degree in some STEM discipline (e.g., computer science, mathematics, information technology or electrical engineering)
You have some years of experience as a seasoned software engineer in an agile environment and are proficient in at least one modern programming language (e.g., Go, Java or Python). 
You know the pros and cons of event-driven and microservices architectures and have been exposed to them in cloud-native platforms. 
You care about end-to-end developer experience, and you do not put it aside because you know that it guides and influences other developers to improve their products and services. 
You know API communication protocols and frameworks, such as GraphQL, gRPC, REST, or webhooks and enjoy building scalable, performant, reliable and highly available services. 
You have deep knowledge of cloud-native platforms and their usage, preferably Microsoft Azure or Amazon Web Services(Optional).
You enjoy collaborating effectively with engineering, product and UX (User eXperience) to break down technical requirements and build innovative solutions. 
You understand and advocate for the importance of having scalable, sustainable, and architecturally sound solutions. 
You enjoy tackling interesting problems and you like following them through to the end. 
You comfortably navigate ambiguity and when required can exercise good judgment and decision-making. 
You demonstrate and champion appetite for knowledge and have a growth mindset.