Cloud Developer

Job description

Annual gross salary range: Min. 29,505€ - Max. 57,225€\ Volkswagen Group Services is a Volkswagen Group company oriented towards working for Group companies worldwide. We provide services in the areas of production, logistics, data engineering (IT), engineering,consulting, quality, business services, human resources, communication, and administrative and financial services. We are focused on our clients’ activities and take responsibility for carrying them out on their behalf. We are currently hiring a Cloud Developer to join our I&E HUB in Lisbon. Who are we?At the Innovation & Engineering Hub, we develop bold, market-ready solutions that support Volkswagen Group and its leading brands. Together with TRATON Group’s Global R&D —home to brands like Scania, MAN, International, and Volkswagen Truck e Bus — we’re building the future of intelligent and sustainable transport. Global R&D focuses on: • Alternative Drive Systems;• Digitalization; • Automated Driving; • Road Safety. We’re not just manufacturing vehicles — we’re engineering the future of mobility. What do we do in our team? The team is responsible for a message-based communication channel between commercial vehicles and the cloud backend that enables digital products. The team embodies an agile and self-managed DevOps mindset and methodology, developing all services and cloud infrastructure (AWS) necessary to ensure a high-available, reliable, and secure communication channel that customers require for their day-to-day work. We work in a product-oriented development, own the Product, and have the autonomy to decide how the Product will evolve. The Product provides, among other services, secure connectivity, message routing, message decoding, vehicle APIs, integration with other systems, and manages client certificates for the connected devices. What will your responsibilities be? • Design, create, test, deploy, and run (DevOps) our event streaming platform on cloud-native infrastructure, being responsible for the entire software lifecycle; • Develop, test and maintain related microservices in state-of-the-art programming languages, using containers, serverless functions, and RESTful APIs; • Develop and maintain functionality for our trucks using agile methodologies; • Create prototypes, Minimum Valuable Products (MVPs), and products; • Be able to take end-to-end responsibility for the products owned; • Take initiative to solve problems and overcome roadblocks; • Solve problems in innovative and pragmatic ways; • Advise the team and other teams as an expert in event-based communication and cloud infrastructure in an automotive IoT environment, and work together on continuously improving the service, tooling, and processes. What requirements are we looking for? • Bachelor’s degree in a related field or comparable job expertise; • At least 3 years of professional experience; • Experience in using and integrating AWS cloud services (AWS ECS, DynamoDB, Lambda) with cloud paradigms like Infrastructure-as-code (AWS CDK and CloudFormation), PaaS, alerting, and monitoring; • Solid experience with backend development in Java (or Kotlin) with a focus on RESTful APIs and event-driven architecture/ pub-sub communication (e.g., Kafka, Kinesis, SQS, MQTT); • Relevant knowledge about hexagonal architecture, unit testing, and end-to-end tests; • Experience with Kafka consumer/producer or Kafka administration is a plus; • Knowledge of Python for rapid prototyping and tooling is a plus. • Agile and DevOps mindset; • Very good English skills, both written and spoken. What we offer • Competitive compensation package; • Flexible work hours and a hybrid model; • Attractive workspace; • Employee health care and life insurance; • Social benefits and several discounts; • Training and professional career development REF LEVEL: A