Principal Backend Engineer

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 see talented individuals ready to bring their unique skills to our projects.

Our startup 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 Key Responsibilities:

• To anticipate, identify and eliminate blockers in the team.
• Ensure Guidelines, Best Practices and Architecture.
• Delivery Advocate & Enabler.
• Responsible of sharing the knowledge and the team agreements between the team.
• You will work on a day-to-day basis with our design, frontend, backend and testing team to build a scalable and solid product.
• Working using best practices (testing, code reviews, DDD, CI/CD, clean cose...) and Agile methodologies.
• Collaborate in the design of the cluster architecture.
• Create of new automated tests/alerts.
• Analysis of new functionalities/system improvements.
• Dev ops: Pipeline's maintenance, creation // Deployment configuration maintenance, creation.

Requirements:

• BA Degree in Computer Sciences (or FP) or professional experience in Software.
• Software engineering background.
• At least 5 years of experience and 2 doing this role.
• Experience with Java and Spring ecosystem, Spring boot, Go is a plus or another languages.
• Experience with testing tools like: Jest, Cypress...
• Experience with AWS; AWS Glue, AWS Lambda...
• Experience with REST APIs.
• Experience with Azure Cloud.
• DevOps knowledge (Kubernetes, Azure DevOps)
• Fluent English and/or Spanish speaker

What we offer:

• Fully remote work capability, with an option to work from our office when needed.
• Access to professional development tools and free language courses.
• Flexible working hours to accommodate personal and professional needs.
• A competitive holiday package and access to a variety of employee discounts.

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Ref: Level C