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Volkswagen Group Services – Portugal

Middle Backend Developer

Volkswagen Group Services – Portugal
Portugal · Full-time · Entry
The Innovation & Engineering Hub by Volkswagen Group Services, in Portugal, delivers groundbreaking solutions together with our stakeholders, by developing sustainable and market-oriented products as well as innovative services. Volkswagen Group Service is positioned in the market with a broad range of automotive services, and supports the core business of Volkswagen, other brands and organizations.

Side by side with TRATON GROUP’s Global R&D, one of the world’s leading manufacturers of commercial vehicles (Scania, MAN, International Motors and VW Caminhões & Ônibus), we are hiring for a dedicated team in our Hub. 🚚

Global R&D of TRATON GROUP is focusing on four key areas:

  • Alternative drive systems;
  • Digitalization;
  • Automated driving;
  • Road Security;

Thus transforming itself from a commercial vehicle manufacturer to a provider of intelligent and sustainable transport solutions.

About the Team:

To drive innovation and unlock the full potential of Software-Defined Vehicles, a User Experience Platform is essential for all TRATON brands. This platform serves as the backbone, weaving together multiple layers—from cloud-based components to frontend components.

The heart of this initiative lies in simplifying complexity. By offering seamless, standardized APIs and a suite of versatile services, features, and tools, the platform empowers each brand to focus on what matters most: delivering exceptional value to their customers and accelerating the launch of market-driven solutions.

Your Responsibilities:

  • Working in the context of automotive IoT you will create, test, deploy and run (DevOps) customer-facing solutions and internal services running on modern cloud infrastructure.
  • You will develop and maintain functionality for our trucks using agile methodologies, being responsible for integral parts of our technical roadmap.
  • You will create products, prototypes and MVPs for near-vehicle services.
  • You will design, develop and operate cloud native microservices using serverless functions, containers, RESTful APIs and event streaming.
  • Be able to take end to end responsibility for the products you build, working closely with other departments to test your software as part of the complete system.
  • Advise your team and other teams on all questions around Backend development in electric vehicle area and work together on continuously improving the service, tooling and processes.
  • Take initiative to solve problems and overcome roadblocks, being the interface between design, technology and user. You are a result-oriented individual.
  • Learn new technologies and to solve problems in innovative and pragmatic ways.

Your Skills:

  • Minimum 3 years of experience.
  • Bachelor’s degree in related field or comparable job expertise.
  • Relevant experience in the conception and implementation of complex
  • software solutions in an international context.
  • Has an Agile and DevOps mindset.
  • Solid experience with Clean Code and Clean Architecture principles as well
  • as common software design patterns. Emphasis on quality, maintainability and usability.
  • Familiarity with version control tools such as Git.
  • Experience with SAFe framework is a plus.
  • Experience with Jira and Confluence is a plus.
  • Solid experience with backend development in Java (Spring Boot)/Kotlin with focus on RESTful APIs and event driven architecture (e.g. Kafka, Kinesis, SQS,MQTT).
  • Experience with CI/CD and micro-service architectures, not only using but building it.
  • Experience in using and integrating cloud services (preference for AWS), knowing cloud paradigms like Infrastructure- as-Code, PaaS, alerting and monitoring.
  • Relevant knowledge of database management systems (SQL, NoSQL)
  • Knowledge of Python (preferably Flask) for rapid prototyping and tooling is also an advantage.
  • Very good English skills, both written and spoken.
  • High level of self-organization and sense of ownership.
  • Proactive in communicating and taking action.
  • Curious, likes to investigate and understand how things work.
  • Motivated by a strong passion to learn and continuously improve, solving problems in an innovative and pragmatic way.
  • Communicate and collaborate with empathy and clarity - you care about supporting those around you.

What can we offer?

  • Attractive Remuneration
  • Flexible work hours and hybrid mode
  • Attractive workspace
  • Active Health Care
  • Employee Benefits

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Portugal

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Posted
Feb 18, 2025
Type
Full-time
Level
Entry
Location
Lisboa
Company
Volkswagen Group Services – Portugal

Industries

Automotive

Categories

Engineering Information Technology

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