Volkswagen Group Services is excited to present a fantastic opportunity to join our Volkswagen Digital:Hub in Spain. As part of the global Software Development Centre network in the Volkswagen Group, we constantly seek talented individuals ready to bring their unique skills to our projects.

Our start-up environment is collaborative, innovative, and open to new ideas. We strive to cultivate a work culture that encourages individual growth, team empowerment, and project excellence. We value respect, teamwork, and the common purpose that binds us as a group. If you're ready to thrive in a dynamic start-up environment and be part of our family, supported by one of the largest companies in the world, we invite you to read further.

About the Team and the Hub:

• Our culture is centered around fostering individual growth and team empowerment within a flexible and supportive environment.
• We prioritize respect, teamwork, and inclusivity, recognizing and valuing the unique contributions of each member.
• We embrace a work-life balance philosophy and encourage continuous personal and professional development.

The Role and Responsibilities:

•    Develop and Maintain: develop, and maintain complex web applications/microservices
•    Collaborate: Work closely with cross-functional teams including designers, product managers, and backend developers to create seamless and performant user experiences. Collaborate in the design of the cluster architecture. Create of new automated tests/alerts.
•    Optimize: Help the team in optimizing components/analysis
•    Innovate: Stay updated with the latest industry trends and technologies, suggesting improvements and implementing innovative solutions to enhance our products.
•    Debug and Troubleshoot: Identify and resolve performance and scalability issues, bugs, and bottlenecks in a timely manner.
•    Documentation and technical support to all the environments, business, etc.

Requirements:
•    Experience: Minimum of 2 years of experience in Backend development with at least some knowledge in Kotlin.
•    Kotlin // Java > 8 (11/17)
•    Spring ecosystem (boot, data, security, etc)
•    Communication protocols - REST
•    Automated testing creation (unit, integration, acceptance, etc)
•    Knowledge about none relational databases, like MongoDB
•    Knowledge in architecture patterns
•    Experience working with Agile.
•    Development methodologies like TDD, DDD, CQRS
•    Problem-Solving: Excellent problem-solving skills, attention to detail, and the ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
•    Communication: Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to effectively collaborate with remote teams.
•    Best Practice's: CI/CD and Clean Architecture
•    Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field is preferred.
•    Monitoring
•    English (min B2) and Spanish.

Nice to have
•    Devops Knowledge (AWS, Docker, Github Actions...)
•    Event driven communication ( we are using AWS SQS, SNS, etc but if the person has experience with KAFKA or RABBIT it is ok)
•    Communication protocols - GRPC
•    Jira, Confluence
•    API first principle knowledge