Cloud Developer - Digital Key

Let's introduce ourselves

At Volvo Cars, we believe that being curious and truly committed to understanding people is the key to future success. We are people who care about other people, working together to create new technologies and innovations for safe, sustainable and convenient mobility. Want to join us?

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.

What you'll do

The Connected Experience organization within R&D includes Remote Functions, Connectivity and Car Cloud Platform, Infotainment Platform, Applications and Data & Diagnostics. Our vision is to make all cars connected and provide a continuously enhanced experience for both new and existing cars. 

Our mission within the Department, Car Cloud Platform and Remote Functions, is to enable remote functions globally to contribute to the overall connected experience. We build, provide, and operate a highly secure run-time ecosystem for functions and applications serving our connected cars, and their users.

In the new domain of digital key and approach the phone will become the primary key for your car. We are looking for a senior developer who might be our next lead developer within the team or a developer on the way to becoming this.

Connecting the user and the digital key with the car in the cloud and the actual phone, that is the challenge we are to solve. You will be creating solutions and integrate it with key players in the industry such as Google, Samsung and Apple among others.

If you're passionate about cloud development, eager to make a difference, and ready to work in a vibrant, collaborative environment, we want to hear from you! Join Our Team as a Java Cloud Developer and Unlock the Future of Digital Keys.

What you'll bring

You are an experienced cloud developer with at least 5-10 years of experience. You are curious and have a quality mindset and sees CI/CD as something that is essential for being a developer. Knowledge and hands on experience of Kubernetes is a key part if you are to help lead this into the future together with us. Previous experience from the automotive industry is a plus due to tight integrations towards the car even though the work will be a Cloud development.

This role is challenging and rewarding. You will need to be structured and also be able to execute on requirements and helping out in defining the work to be planned and implemented. In general, we expect you to have experience in or a knowledge of the following:

• Java coding
• Cloud set-up, configuration and deployment (we work in AWS and with Kubernetes)
• Previous working experience with Kubernetes, Apache Kafka and MQTT
• Open API, CI/CD
• Database, cryptography and security knowledge
• Previous unit testing experience
• Agile ways of working with Scrum and similar
• BSc degree or higher in engineering, or equivalent experience
• Strong English language skills - both spoken and written

We would like you to be a team-player with strong collaboration and communication skills. We expect you to have the ability to share results verbally as well as in writing in a clear, concise manner to both technical specialists and people without technical knowledge. 
Finally, we're looking for someone with structured and analytical way of taking on tasks and performing on a daily basis in a result-oriented way.