Software Full Stack Engineer - Evergreen

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.

Would you like to influence and craft the technical strategy that helps Volvo Cars to grow and reach our goal of being an electric car company by 2030?

Excellent, then we would like you to join our team as Senior Fullstack Typescript Developer! 

The Retail Shopping subcluster is a part of the Commercial Digital (CD) area, and we are creating a product that would be used by our agents to enable Volvo Cars to sell cars to our customers directly. And this is an opportunity to shape this product with your expertise.

We have only just begun this journey in earnest, and you’ll be joining us at a time where you can really have a great impact and help us set the tone for the next chapter in our company's history! 

What you’ll do:  
You will be developing software for consumer-facing and internal products for multiple countries. We are building products that would cater to the end-to-end experience for our agents to be able to sell the cars. Your responsibilities will include rapid development of prototypes/concepts, and regular product development. Our current stack for building web user interfaces and frontends includes, but is not limited to, JavaScript, React, Typescript, Node.js and Salesforce. You will contribute to building unified agents experience while transforming the way we sell cars in a direct-to-consumer model. Our Continuous Integration and Delivery pipeline are built with GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps & Kubernetes.

You and your skills:
To succeed in this role, we expect you to have minimum of 5 years of work experience developing software focused more on frontend. We expect you to have experience building modern web apps, user interfaces, and frontends and have significant knowledge of the Web Platform (JavaScript, HTML, and CSS) and Software Engineering practices, with great knowledge and experience of ReactJS, Typescript and tools like Redux, Micro-Frontend Architecture, BFFs & Webpack Module Federation.

You can design front end components with testability in mind and have Experience balancing developer experience with web performance. Also, you understand the challenge and value of building consistent, responsive, resilient and accessible UI. Working Knowledge of GitHub and Azure DevOps and Agile ways of working. 

We want people with a growth and learning mindset, therefore we don’t expect you to have knowledge of all the tools, concepts and technologies that we use. Instead, we expect you to have an attitude towards acquiring the knowledge necessary to do your work.

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 180 days of parental leave, paid at 90 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.