Senior Java Backend Developer
Lisbon
Innovation & Engineering Hub – MAN Innovation & Engineering /
Perm Contract /
Hybrid
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 MAN Truck & Bus, one of Europe's leading manufacturers of commercial vehicles, we are hiring for a dedicated team in our Hub. 🚚
MAN Truck & Bus 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.
We are looking for enthusiastic and proactive people to be part of the team responsible for kicking off this journey to deliver the first use case as a proof of concept in order to get more insights and that can evolve into a customer ready product.
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 of 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 we can offer:
- Attractive Remuneration;
- Flexible work hours and hybrid model;
- Attractive workspace;
- Active Health Care;
- Employee Benefits.
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Apply now for Innovation & Engineering Hub and be a driver reshaping the future of the automotive industry!🚍🚌
