Engineering Manager Energy API & Dashboard

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.

Where You’ll Belong

Propulsion and Energy is one of the corner stones of Volvo Cars Engineering. We are at the heart of electrification and energy engineering with a clear purpose to develop state of the art propulsions and energy solutions.

Energy management department is focusing on creating solutions for a great customer experience around energy and charging both in the car and beyond the car. A natural part of Energy Solution, our newly started business vertical.

As Engineering Manager you will lead an engaged and growing team of software developers that are part of building the future of energy solution. You will belong to the Energy Management leadership team, working together with a team of experienced and motivated leaders. This role gives you a great opportunity to build your team and nurturing collaboration cross Volvo Cars while making a true difference for the organization.

What you’ll do

You will lead and grow a team of talented software engineers providing them with mentorship, guidance, support and feedback. You will build competence and nurture talent by hiring and actively developing your team. You will ensure, through streamlined execution and experimentation, that our solutions meet the needs of our customers quickly and accurately. You will cultivate friendly and effective cross functional collaboration within Energy Solution.

Moreover, you will advocate and strengthen a modern software development and help us develop and foster good engineering practices. You will ensure the solutions are scalable, sustainable, architecturally sound, and that technical debt is both incurred consciously and repaid in a reasonable time.

Lastly, you will take the opportunity to collaborate with other engineering leaders across the organization, driving excellence and fostering a culture of continuous improvement.

What you’ll bring

We are looking for you who is an engaged and inspiring people leader. You thrive from developing and growing an engineering team in a high paced and fast changing business and have previous experience of doing so. Applying creative thinking, never hesitate to think outside the box and use data to efficiently bring you forward comes naturally for you.

You are a committed and collaborative colleague with the ability to create trust around you while influencing others. You have strong communication skills creating clarity and motivation for the teams around you. We also see that you have a good ability to listen and coach and you are energetic and truly motivated by creating new solutions together with the engaged teams.

In addition to succeed you should have:
• Strong experience from managing engineering teams, people management and leadership.
• Tech understanding in architecture – especially in API driven design.
• Background in SW Engineering, preferably from working with backend teams, and knowledge of programming languages such as .Net and Java.

Finally, you are someone that fully embraces a growth mindset, and you have the ability to encourage others to do the same. You are someone who likes to have fun at work and makes sure everyone always feels welcome and included!