Engineering Manager

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.

As an Engineering Manager your main responsibility is to support your product team by ensuring they are constantly growing their engineering skills, while solving complex technical problems that deliver great value to our users. 

We also like this to happen while everyone has a fun and joyful time at work since we believe this is a key ingredient in a creative environment! In essence, we are looking for someone that's passionate about coaching and developing great engineering teams, facilitating good teamwork, while building fantastic products. 

As a software technology company we value leaders with a solid prior background in software development since we believe this allows you to effectively support and grow your team members in their field. 

What you’ll do
•    Lead and grow a team of engineers through hiring, coaching, mentoring, inspiring, feedback and hands-on personal career development.
•    Ensure through crips execution and experimentation that our of technical solutions meet the needs of our users quickly and accurately.
•    Be the voice of engineering in the product team leadership trio through a friendly and effective collaboration with your product- and UX counterparts.
•    Advocate and advance modern, agile software development practices and help develop and foster good engineering and organizational practices.
•    Help ensure that our solutions are scalable, sustainable, architecturally sound and technical debt is both incurred consciously and repaid in a reasonable time.
•    Be an active member of the cluster engineering leadership team and collaborate with other leaders across the organization.
•    Be based in either Stockholm, Gothenburg or Lund, but will occasionally travel to other Volvo Cars locations to meet with your colleagues there.

Who you are
•    A person that loves leading, develop, inspire and grow an engineering organisation, and have previous experience doing so.
•    Someone that possess a deep understanding of how to translate product and business goals into sound technical solutions, and can coach your team in doing the same.
•    Very knowledgeable and passionate about modern software development.
•    Prior to starting your technical leadership career you have had extensive experience working hands-on as a Software Engineer in an agile environment You enjoy collaborating with product and UX leaders to build amazing products.
•    You have empathy and understand that every individual and situation has their specific needs and can adapt your leadership style accordingly.
•    You fully embrace a growth mindset, and have the ability to inspire others to do the same.
•    You like to have fun at work and take great pride in making sure everyone always feel welcome and included.

How to learn more and apply
Does this sound like your next challenge? Welcome with your application by submitting your resume and cover letter via the link below, no later than August 14th, 2022. If you have any questions regarding the position or recruitment process you are welcome to contact hiring manager Sachin Surana via sachin.surana@volvocars.com or Senior Recruiter via rinor.alihajdaraj@volvocars.com.