Software Engineer
Volvo Cars is a company on a mission; to bring traditional car manufacturing into a connected, sustainable and smart future.
Since 1927, we have been a brand known for our commitment to safety, creating innovative cars that make life less complicated for our consumers. In 2010, we decided to transform our business, resulting in a totally new generation of cars and technologies, as well as steady growth and record sales.
Today, we’re expanding our global footprint in Europe, China and the US, and we’re on the lookout for new talent.
We are constantly pushing our own skills and abilities to drive change in the automobile industry like never before. We are looking for innovative, committed people to join us in this endeavour and create safe, sustainable and connected cars.We believe in the power of people and will challenge and support you to reach your full potential. Join us and be part of Volvo Cars’ journey into the future.
About the Team
Our product is the Global Order-to-Delivery tool, used by NSC and Dealers across all Volvo markets. It provides capabilities for pipeline management and control, commercial fleet order management, and NSC/Dealer reporting. The system also connects Dealers and NSC to VCC's manufacturing, logistics back-end systems, and invoicing processes.Additionally, it supports order capturing and management from both internal and external applications through various integrations.
We are currently in a transformation phase, with our primary focus on integrating with logistics back-end systems. This integration will be developed using the latest Java Spring Boot framework, designed as a collection of event-driven services leveraging Kafka.
What you’ll do
You will be innovating our user experience with a focus on building backend services primarily using REST APIs. 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 longterm ownership.
You and your skillsWe 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