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In this role, you will design the cloud-native backend for the Group App Store on Megatron PaaS and Microsoft Azure, defining service boundaries, API contracts, and security concepts.
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Your role in the team
- Design and build the cloud-native Group App Store backend from the ground up on CARIAD's Megatron PaaS and Microsoft Azure.
- Define service boundaries, API contracts, authentication flows, data persistence, and event-driven architecture patterns.
- Develop and maintain the vehicle, developer portal, and companion app APIs, with OpenAPI specifications as the binding contract.
- Contribute hands-on to the shared codebase, review pull requests, and ensure that partner deliverables meet agreed quality and acceptance criteria.
- Own the Azure landscape, including networking, access control, environment segregation, security, governance, and cloud costs.
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, automated quality gates, environment promotion, and rollback mechanisms.
- Establish observability through structured logging, distributed tracing, metrics, dashboards, SLOs, and alerting.
- Collaborate closely with internal stakeholders and our external engineering partner to deliver a secure, scalable, and reliable platform.
Our expectations of you
Qualifications
- Deep expertise in cloud-native backend development, distributed systems, and scalable service architectures.
- Strong understanding of secure and resilient backend systems, including TLS, rate limiting, error handling, and DDoS protection.
- Comfortable working hands-on in a shared codebase while reviewing architecture, code quality, and technical deliverables from external development partners.
- Strong technical judgment and communication skills, with the confidence to take ownership, make decisions, and constructively challenge solutions when needed.
Experience
- 5+ years of professional backend software development experience in complex, production-grade environments.
- Strong experience designing REST APIs, service boundaries, authentication flows, data persistence, and event-driven architectures.
- Strong hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure, including IAM/RBAC, networking, Key Vault, security, and cloud operations.
- Experienced in designing and operating CI/CD pipelines, observability, logging, tracing, metrics, and production monitoring.
What we offer
- We are CARIAD, the automotive software company of the Volkswagen Group. Our teams build automotive software platforms and digital customer functions for iconic brands like Audi, Volkswagen, and Porsche - supporting the Volkswagen Group in becoming the leading automotive technology company.
- With CARIDIANS in Germany, the USA, China, Estonia, and India, we are transforming automotive mobility for everyone.
- Join us and be part of this exciting journey!
- At CARIAD, we embrace individuality and diversity because we believe our differences make us stronger.
- We actively seek to build teams with a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences.
- Our goal is to create an environment where everyone feels valued and empowered to contribute.
- If you need assistance with your application due to a disability, please reach out to us at - we are happy to support you.
Benefits
Health, fitness & fun
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About your employer
The Volkswagen Group, which has its headquarters in Wolfsburg, Germany, is one of the world's leading manufacturers of automobiles and commercial vehicles.
- 250+ Employees
- Established Company
- Onsite, Hybrid
- Industry, Production
Employer reviews
- Career growth
- 3.1
- Engineering
- 2.9
- Working conditions
- 4.0
- Team culture
- 3.6
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