Tech Lead, Mulesoft Integration Services

Hi there, we are currently looking for a Technical Lead to join our Digital Enablement team.

If you are reading this, you probably already know that Polestar is an electric performance car brand. We work hard to create a unique experience for the customer, owner and driver. The thrill of driving the car, the digital experience of buying, owning and controlling a Polestar require us to push the limits of technology and software development. Sustainability has been there from the beginning and we have set a moonshot goal for climate-neutral cars in 2030. There is an ocean of opportunities in this for talented IT professionals who wants to dive in and make a difference.

About Integration Services within the Digital Enablement Area

The purpose of Integration Services is to enable integration capabilities & services to the digital teams. Integration Services are supporting our digital teams with integrations when we need to tie our services to external partners, or when we need to connect our COTS applications with each other in a modern way that fits into our event driven architecture. The team is currently using the Mulesoft platform to fulfil the needs from the organization.

About the role

The Technical Lead is a modern technologist, an expert in integration and APIs with a background in software development. You will collaborate with a variety of stakeholders to analyse their requirements and together with the team design & build the needed integrations. You will, together with the team, work with the technical roadmap to improve your team deliveries and the use of the platform, keeping technical debt to a minimum. You believe integration development can be democratized and strive to offer as much self-service as possible, with an as code approach. You must be passionate about robustness and availability, having an always on mindset. You love to engage in architectural events and collaborate with others in the organization to create clarity and progress. You are an influencer and thought leader that will possess the in-depth technical expertise and credibility to provide guidance to the development team/s. You will perform hands-on activities as required to ensure success.

What you will do

- Conduct requirements gathering workshops from integration perspective and lead the solution design process
- Coach the integration team/s through complex, multi-phased deliveries and provide hands-on delivery guidance to the developers and stakeholders
- Create and influence proper standards for development, governance, and operational lifecycle within the team
- Maintain the integration landscape diagram and be the technical face of the integration team in architectural reviews
- Coach the team towards turning lessons learned into continuous improvement backlog items
- Collaborate with Digital Lead to create a good balance of new development vs continuous improvement in backlog refinements


Who you are

- Experience from being a tech lead or lead developer with architectural depth
- Good understanding of software integration design, MuleSoft out-of-the-box connectors and custom connectors
- Knowledge of designing and developing integration solutions using MuleSoft Anypoint Platform, cloud as well as on-premise
- Experience working with AWS (SNS, SQS, Lambda) & the Elastic stack
- Experience from working with shared services / platform products with high degree of self-service for users
- Tech savvy with ambitions to establish great developer relations
- Strong collaborator and used to coaching teams
- Experience of working with cloud, git / source code mgmt, backlog tools, CI/CD, DevOps, agile development…
- Excellent listener and strong communication skills


Personal qualities

- Strong communicator who fluently adjusts content & details to fit the target audience
- Passion to challenge the status quo, find new solutions and drive out of the box ideas - loves and embraces change
- Experimental mindset to drive innovation & learnings
- Believes in a non-hierarchical culture of collaboration, transparency, safety, and trust


Polestar - the guiding star

Polestar is an electric performance brand, determined to improve the society we live in by catalyzing the change to sustainable mobility. We are a global team of highly talented individuals who share a passion to change the world. We challenge conventions and we challenge ourselves for the purpose of innovation. We believe innovation is a team effort and that just like each component is critical to the performance of our cars each person working at Polestar is as important to the team and its performance. We work in close collaboration across empowered global teams that don’t settle for anything less than excellence.

At Polestar, the sky is the limit.

Is this you? If you are interested in joining the Polestar family, don't wait with submitting your application. We apply a continuous selection process and the job post will be open until the position is filled.