JUNIOR BACKEND & INFRASTRUCTURE ENGINEER

Want to join us on our exciting journey? Volvo Cars is on an exciting journey, redefining the automotive experience by innovating to make people’s lives less complicated.
We offer you a once-in-a-lifetime chance to make an impact in a company with unique opportunities to grow and make a true difference.
Whats in it for you? Sustainable transportation and mobility together with electrification are some of the core goals at Volvo Cars in our journey towards a more sustainable future and our goal to provide safe, sustainable, and personal travel.
In line with our ambitions, we understood that our vehicles and related software ecosystem are a crucial platform to integrate third-party products and services to contribute to a more sustainable economy.
For such a mission at Volvo Cars, we at the Open Information Cluster, are looking for an engaged and self-going junior engineer to join us and help us build and shape our partner technical capabilities.
Our goal is to augment the capabilities and functionality of Volvo vehicles for our customers.
We do this by collaborating with other teams in the organization to enable internal and external makers, develop APIs, and support the rollout of portals and documentation.
We are a culturally- and gender-diverse team of engineers and product managers, with varied backgrounds in computer science, informatics, and electronics, focused on solving problems rather than just talking about them.
Our portfolio includes APIs, emulators, documentation and open data, and our well-known safety research database.
We are also eager to highlight our expertise and ideas and participate in internal hackathons as well as external competitions --- sometimes, getting an award.
This position is primarily located in our offices in Gothenburg, Sweden but we work in a hybrid mode and in collaboration with our offices in Stockholm, Sweden and Mahwah, NJ, USA.
What will you be doing? Assessing the design, implementation, and deployment needs of a containerised cloud infrastructure.
Together with your colleagues and peers you will enable a first-class API platform in the cloud.
Use patterns and leverage modern frameworks to build, maintain, and implement the products and services within the Open Information Cluster cloud platform.
Participate in design and development tasks, assist your peers with operational and implementation issues.
Work with modern software principles evaluating options, performance trade-offs and welcome exploring, trying, and testing new technologies.
Your experience? You have studied or have some working experience as a software engineer in an agile environment and are proficient in at least one modern programming language (e.
., Go, Java or Python).
You have some knowledge of event-driven and microservices architectures and have been exposed to them in cloud-native platforms.
You care about end-to-end developer experience, and you do not put it aside because you know that it guides and influences other developers to improve their products and services.
You know API communication protocols and frameworks, such as GraphQL, gRPC, REST, or webhooks and enjoy building scalable, performant, reliable and highly available services.
(Optional) You have knowledge of cloud-native platforms and their usage, preferably Microsoft Azure or Amazon Web Services.
About you? You enjoy tackling interesting problems and you like following them through to the end.
You comfortably navigate ambiguity and when required can exercise good judgment and decision-making.
You demonstrate and champion appetite for knowledge and have a growth mindset.
You are an empathetic individual towards end-users, fellow engineers and co-workers.
You have a strong commitment to a healthy balance between work and personal life.
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 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.