Software developers at Scania
Blogs and stories by developers, for developers
Scania aims to take the leading role in driving the shift within transports, creating a world of mobility that is better for business, society and the environment. As we are moving towards a Data & Software driven provider of sustainable transport solutions, a key for success is our people working with software Development to drive this journey together.
“Software Developers at Scania” is a place where you can get inspired and learn more about our people working with software and what we do.
Farangis Hakimi
Cloud Developer
Farangis Hakimi reflects on her enriching three-year journey. Initially skeptical, she now values Scania's supportive culture and growth opportunities. Her role in Scania's Cloud Centre of Excellence involves assisting teams in cloud migration and fostering learning. She values the creative freedom and adaptability within her team.
Linus Bergfors
Product Manager
Linus Bergfors has been passionate about the environment his whole life. That is one of the reasons why he enjoys his job as Product Manager working with autonomous solutions at Scania. "I think that you make more difference when you're in the thick of it, when you're creating that new technology that will improve both society and the environment in the future."
Latest blog posts
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05 Mar 2024
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16 Jan 2024
"Unlocking the Power of Artificial Intelligence: How Machine Learning and Knowledge Graphs Work Together."
Unlocking the Power of Artificial Intelligence: How Machine Learning and Knowledge Graphs Work Together. -
15 Nov 2023
"We don't use any Open Source," said no IT professional ever.
At Scania, we have (as all companies) made extensive use of Open Source technologies for our in-house system but I feel that we've been missing out on Open Source in our products. That's all about to change, as the automotive sector at large warms up to Open Source technologies, fervently encouraged by our suppliers, eager to usher us into the future. -
10 Oct 2023
Dynamic Stacks — a branch-based deployment strategy on AWS
I will give you valuable insights and reflections on how we in our team embraced a branch based deployment strategy on AWS for simulating isolated development environments on a single AWS account, along with some best practices and optimisation techniques. -
22 Feb 2023
Distributed architecture smells
After over 10 years of experience working with distributed systems, I learned that a monolith is not only an application in a single repository, but also more importantly a highly coupled set of API/contracts that share specific traits. Here is a simple guide to avoid common mistakes. -
06 Dec 2022
Five layers to systemize when working with constantly growing embedded software
I will highlight some key considerations and limitations when working in safety critical embedded systems with real-time performance requirements. In slightly less technical terms – an electric system in a vehicle. -
25 Aug 2022
From India to Sweden: My Developer Story at Scania
Join me on a journey through my role as a developer at Scania, where I'll delve into my experiences and how we harness the power of Ideas for Learnability. I embarked on this adventure with one of Scania's IT teams, which led to relocating my family from India to Sweden. -
20 Apr 2022
Creating an Effective Design System with Web Components: A Step-by-Step Guide
In the Corporate Digital Design & UX team, we develop and improve Scania Digital Design System (SDDS), which enables a coherent and consistent user experience in different solutions throughout Scania's services and web applications. -
15 Mar 2022
Manage the Perfect Storm
In the interface between big-data, data-science, AI and software engineering, a perfect storm is created. There is an ever increasing need for magicians that can control this storm. So what is required of you as developer to be this magician? I will give an overview of some areas that according to my experience are vital to modern data-wizardry. -
01 Mar 2022
BLOG: Developing myself in an awesome team – every day!
I started to work at Scania in 2018, as one of the chosen graduates of the IT Talent programme. This was my first job as a developer. I joined a team that exposes Scania's data to its customers through APIs. -
05 Dec 2021
How we use Terraform at Scania
Setting up and arranging staging environments in a microservice architecture can be cumbersome. At Autonomous Systems we extended Terraform and created Siteformation to solve this problem. -
21 Nov 2021
Applying Golden Path
For new developers starting in a team, finding the way around can be difficult. Even if you know and can work in programming languages used by your new team, understanding how to apply them and how to use the supplied tooling can be hard. -
14 Nov 2021
Welcome to our world
Scania aims to take the leading role in driving the shift within transports, creating a world of mobility that is better for business, society and the environment. As we are moving towards a Data & Software driven provider of sustainable transport solutions, a key for success is our people working with software to drive this journey together.
