Back-End Developer - Insight Lab i Göteborg

We’re creating our own future 

At Volvo Cars, we are making bold digital visions come true. We aim to be the leader in the automotive world by creating a digital ecosystem built around making our customers' lives less complicated. What we all have in common at Volvo Cars is our passion for protecting lives, our endless curiosity, and our dedication to create a new future for the automotive industry. Our human centric focus is what separates us from all other car companies.

Insight Lab
Within Volvo Cars Open Innovation Arena, Insight Lab created itself three years ago as an Internal Start-Up and has since then proven its strong value to many thousand collaborators. Now Insight Lab is quickly scaling up, and we need you to help us redefine our organization as an established Lab as well as our main product, UNIFY, Volvo Cars own Knowledge Graph platform. 

Insight Lab enables Volvo Cars to fearlessly ride dependencies and complexity. We give people decision-making superpowers by revealing all sorts of actionable insights hidden within Volvo Cars data sources. We believe knowledge can be made available to everyone. We do that by effectively breaking silos throughout the company with the help of the exciting and limitless graph technologies and graph data sciences.

Are you an explorer, working beyond the edges of your job description? Are you not scared in front of seemingly impossible challenges and ready to go all-in for them, daring to take risks and grow?

At Insight Lab you will work in a friendly, self-organizing, cross-functional team with a strong feeling of co-ownership. Insight Lab is a hybrid workplace enabling for home, on-site and off-site working. Here is the place where creativity will be valued in everything you do and however you do it. And you will join us to be an active co-creator of the Insight Lab experiment.

What You’ll Do
You will be a key member of Insight Lab, Volvo Cars expert organization for all Graph Technologies related matters. As part of our Back-End team you will be responsible for developing intelligent and robust Graph Applications. Your main role will be to develop within UNIFY, Volvo Cars Graph Intelligence Platform, a new application dedicated to delivering insights from our Product Engineering platform. You will integrate external data systems to UNIFY by consuming their APIs, you will process the data and feed it to a dedicated graph database using queries developed by one of our graph developers and you will provide graph-powered insights to the UNIFY Front-End and to other applications through the UNIFY API.

You will be working both with the product Engineering team (to specify the application) as well as with your Insight Lab graph and front-end development teammates. You will be managing your CI/CD pipeline.

Required Skills
•    Good understanding of both relational and non-relational databases
•    Knowledge and hands-on experience of algorithms and data structures on real data
•    Knowledge of RESTful APIs development
o    JAX-RS – Jersey - springboot experience is a plus
•    Experience in consuming APIs with recent authentication techniques/practices
•    Object-oriented programming languages to create and enhance web applications backends.
•    Build tools as Maven or Gradle or Ant
•    Good understanding of software design patterns
•    Experience using modern development tools (e.g. Git, GitLab or GitHub etc.) within a development team.

Meritorious Skills (any of the following)
•    Linux server administration, bash
•    Work collaboratively to define infrastructure and deployment requirements.
•    Define and control CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins.
•    Be able to containerize your applications in Docker and deploy them in our Kubernetes cluster.

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.