Staff Engineer - Developer Experience

Software that makes a difference

We're bringing big and bold digital visions to life. For this we want to welcome more curious and creative engineers that want to create change - one line of high-quality code at a time. Our transformation isn't for everyone, but if you're excited about solving the technological challenges facing the auto industry, then this role could be for you. 

Let's introduce ourselves

The mission for Developer Experience is to provide an internal developer platform with few, meaningful, opinionated choices, that makes it easy for software developers at Volvo Cars to own their products end-to-end. 
 
The Developer Experience team develops a platform of infrastructure tools and technology to help our software developers iterate faster and concern themselves less with infrastructure implications. This platform is growing fast and allowing Volvo Cars to step change its developer productivity. As a Staff Engineer you will have a core role in defining, designing, and gelling new and existing technologies into a robust end-to-end developer platform that enable software engineers across the organisation to create and maintain products safer and faster.

We have a first set of the platform in production and are during the upcoming year greatly enhancing the value it will be able to, and you’ll be joining us at a time when 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

As a Staff Engineer, you will have a leading role and support committed cross-functional teams in defining technical standards and strategies. You will support, and mentor platform engineers in delivering on the strategic technical product roadmap that you help create. In collaboration with Product Managers, Engineering Managers and Engineering teams you will among other things, deliver analysis, architectural patterns and hands-on development when required.

In this role you will:

•    Provide Technical Leadership across the developer experience domain
•    Provide architectural guidance and set technical strategies together with product and technical leaders inside and outside the department
•    Advocate and advance modern, engineering practices. 
•    Ensure the solutions are scalable, sustainable, secure, architecturally sound, and technical debt is both incurred consciously and repaid in a reasonable time. 
•    Be an active member and contributor to tech-steering and leadership group. 
•    Foster a culture of healthy conversation across teams to ensure alignment

What you'll bring

We are looking for you who has a genuine interest in developer platforms, and technology.  As we are bringing together different products into one seamless platform, we are looking for a technical leader who can help the teams converge their different scopes by creating clarity and buy-in for our technical direction both internally in our organization and towards our customers.

Since this platform is being adopted by Volvo Cars, a large portion of the time needs to go into understanding the everyday challenges of the vast set of software developers at Volvo (with the support of product managers). You are comfortable in leading in ambiguity and you lean on collaboration to solve complex problems. This is the role for you with extensive experience within platform engineering.

You also have

•    Experience working with highly visible projects in an international environment.
•    Experience working with Internal Developer Platforms, GitOps, declarative infra and CI/CD orchestration
•    Ability to collaborate with technical and business stakeholders across the enterprise
•    Experience of a large scale transformation in a previous company, and know-how to navigate that.
•    Ability to collaborate with all levels of engineering-, product- and data leaders to build outstanding products.
 

Sounds interesting? We hope so

We’d love to receive and review your application. We welcome you to apply in English as soon as possible, we will go through applications on a regular basis.  Please apply through the provided link. Applications submitted via email will not be retained or taken into consideration. Once you receive a confirmation email from the system, your application will be acknowledged.

Location for this position can be in either Gothenburg or Stockholm.
 

Volvo Cars – Driving change together

Volvo Cars’ success is the result of a collaborative, diverse, and inclusive working environment. Today, we are one of the most well-known and respected car brands, with over 43,000 employees across the globe. At Volvo Cars, your career is designed around your skills and aspirations so you can reach your full potential.
 

And it’s so exciting – we’re well on our way on our journey towards full electrification. We have five fully electric cars already on the market, and five more on the way. Our fully electric and plug-in hybrid cars combined make up almost 50 per cent of our sales. So come and join us shaping the future of mobility. There’s never been a more rewarding time to play part in our inspiring and creative teams!