Senior Backend Developer

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 Digital Vehicle Platform is essential for all TRATON brands. Feature Activation is part of the platform and serves as a backbone, weaving together multiple layers—from vehicle components to cloud based components.

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 5 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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