Senior Software Engineer - Backend/Java

Who are we?

Everything we do starts with people. Our purpose is to provide freedom to move, in a personal, sustainable and safe way. We are committed to simplifying our customers’ lives by offering better technology solutions that improve their impact on the world and bringing the most advanced mobility innovations to protect them, their loved ones and the people around them.

Volvo Cars’ continued success is the result of a collaborative, diverse, and inclusive working environment. The people of Volvo Cars are committed to making a difference in our world. Today, we are one of the most well-known and respected car brands, with over 40,000 employees across the globe. We believe in bringing out the best in each other and harnessing the true power of people. At Volvo Cars your career is designed around your talents and aspirations so you can reach your full potential. Join us on a journey of a lifetime as we create safety, autonomous driving and electrification technologies of tomorrow.

What's in it for you?

Would you like to influence and craft the technical strategy that enables Volvo Cars to grow and reach our goal of being an electric car company by 2030?
Great, then we would like you to join one of our Clusters as a Senior backend Engineer with experience in Java! 

Depending on your skills & desires you will be able to join one of our Product Cluster as a part of the Global Online Experience (GOX) area, developing Back-end software for consumer-facing and internal products globally. 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. We are using digital technologies to reinvent the experience of becoming a Volvo customer. There’s no reason the experience of buying a car should be painful and difficult – it should be as enjoyable and exciting as actually having a new car. That is our mission.

Your responsibilities will include rapid development of prototypes/concepts, and regular product development.

You should have start-up mind set where you have quickly developed prototypes and catalysed product development in a fast paced, fluid environment.  You have or have recently had hands-on development experience. You are experienced with agile development and a champion of software development best practices.

The team is primarily located in Gothenburg, Stockholm and we also have teams in the San Francisco US and in Shanghai China. Many of the people you will be working with have experience from start-ups and global tech companies such as Spotify, Google, Ericsson, Microsoft, Tradera, Klarna, EA Games etc.

What you’ll do

You will be innovating our customer experience with a focus on building backend services primarily using REST APIs and GraphQL. We use mainly Java and SpringBoot to set up services. We also use Kibana and Grafana for our dashboards. We deploy our applications in Kubernetes and AWS, using tools like GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, Jaeger, and Prometheus, among others. We use Kafka as our event streaming platform.

You will work together with quality engineers as part of a cross-functional team. Your main focus will be to service and enrich our customer's experience from order creation to delivery and long-term ownership.

You and your skills

We believe that you…
* Are an experienced backend engineer who’s worked on several products in the past
* Have knowledge of Java, and you feel comfortable working in a platform with a Docker/Kubernetes/Cloud setup.
* You have a solid understanding of microservices, and frontend know-how is a bonus.
* To be effective in this role, you need to take charge as well as be a collaborator. You should have the ability to drive and create commitment. It is important that you have integrity and a change management mindset.


This position could be based either in Gothenburg, Lund, or Stockholm

We offer our employees excellent benefits such as: 

Plenty of leave to let you take time off for what's most important in life At Volvo Car Group, all new parents with one year’s active permanent service now receive 24 weeks of parental leave, paid at 80 percent of their base pay. The policy is for everyone – whether you’re a designer or a plant operator, whether you work in China or the USA. Read more here: https://group.volvocars.com/careers/family-bond-by-volvo-cars. 
Collective Agreement and ITP pensions.
An annual allowance to spend on your health and wellbeing.

How to learn more and apply? 
Do you want to find out more? We are continously going through the applications, welcome with your application by submitting your resume. Please note that due to GDPR, we can’t accept applications via email. For questions regarding the recruitment process, please contact Recruiter Sara Zinad at sara.zinad@volvocars.com.