Brief Role Description

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.

Smart Route Planning 🔌 is a connected service (including vehicle software, web frontend, mobile app, etc.) that aims at enabling the user to plan tours, tour stages and routes in a meaningful, feasible and comfortable way.

Possible Tasks within this Role

Your Responsibilities:

• Working in the context of automotive IoT you will create, test, deploy and run (DevOps) backend solutions, web-based tools and customer-facing interfaces using 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 develop products, prototypes and MVPs for near-vehicle services.
• You will 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.
• You advise your team and other teams on all questions around Fullstack development in an automotive IoT environment and work together on continuously improving the service, tooling and processes;
• You take initiative to solve problems and overcome roadblocks, being the interface between electrical engineers, IT technology and the user. You are a result-oriented individual;
• You are happy to learn new technologies and to solve problems in innovative and pragmatic ways.

Qualification requirements

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.
• Very good English skills, both written and spoken.
• Solid experience with Clean Code and Clean Architecture principles as well as common software design patterns. Emphasis on quality, maintainability and usability.
• Solid experience with Fullstack development with focus on REST APIs and event driven architecture (e.g. Kafka, Kinesis, SQS, MQTT)
• Knowledge of HTML5, CSS, SASS, JavaScript, Typescript and JSON as well as how to connect web services considering the REST paradigm.
• Experience with JavaScript frameworks (preferably ReactJS).
• Relevant knowledge in Java/Kotlin as well as backend frameworks, ideally Spring Boot.
• Relevant knowledge of database management systems (SQL, NoSQL)
• Experience in the technical implementation of solutions under consideration of MVVM/MVC design pattern.
• Having an Agile and DevOps mindset.
• Experience with CI & CD and microservice architectures.
• Experience in using and integrating cloud services (preferably AWS) with cloud paradigms like Infrastructure-as-code, PaaS, alerting and monitoring is a plus.