Software Engineer i Stockholm

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.

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 Backend Engineer! 

The Car Locator Engine (CLE) team is a part of the Global Online Experience (GOX) area and our mission is to help our customers acquire cars with rapid delivery; putting them in the Volvo of their choice faster, CLE is the backbone of Rapid Delivery for any digital channel. We support the rest of the organization in using this knowledge to serve the customers in the best possible way. We’re looking for someone that will help us craft a world class search ecosystem that spans across multiple product teams and clusters. 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:  

• Contribute towards the development, testing, maintenance and integration of applications / systems
• Ideation and brainstorming sessions to devise creative and disruptive digital solutions; APIs and data solutions to drive toward implementation of those solutions
• Use patterns and leverage modern frameworks to build, maintain, and implement our solutions
• Gain knowledge of various development approaches and assisting with the design of ground-up projects and enhancements
• Occasionally play multiple roles (e.g. individual contributor, lead, teacher, mentor)
• Get to know the supported business area(s), have an awareness of related objectives and challenges
• Communicate technical concepts to technical and non-technical audiences
• Evaluate options and the performance tradeoffs / benefits
• Focus on accuracy and quality, while continuing to deliver code

Who you are:  

Professionally solved challenges with application development and implementation over the last three or more years with:

• C# and .Net programming
• Event-based systems (eg. Kafka, SQS, SNS, or similar)
• REST API Design and Implementation
• Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment (CI/CD)
• Relational and non-relational databases (MongoDB, Redis, Elasticsearch, etc)
• Kubernetes and Terraforming 
• Any CSPs (Azure/AWS/GCP)

Good if you have:

• Typescript, Apollo GraphQL, TypeORM, React

You:

• Develop unit tests and using version control
• Understand the Product development and Agile mindset 
• Adhere to coding quality standards
• Steer productive team communication and collaboration on problem solving

We offer our employees excellent benefits such as:  

• Plenty of leave to let you take time off for what's most important in life  
• Collective Agreement and ITP pensions  
• An annual allowance to spend on your health and wellbeing  
• A private health insurance 

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.