Staff II Engineer - Software
What you'll do
- Drive design of essential sub-systems of TomTom’s state-of-the-art navigation system, to enable its scalability, integrability and flexibility vis-a-vis current and future real-life navigation use-cases.
- Work with the location platform technical leadership team (Tech LT) to create designs that improve the non-functional and quality aspects of the product and minimize regressions.
- Collaborate with product teams to design and architect software that meets quality goals.
- Deliver technical plans to enhance the quality and reliability of integration testing, including downstream integrators, considering performance and other non-functional aspects to ensure bug-free software.
- Developing or collaborating in the development of tools and systems to test or measure the quality of our products.
- Establishing mechanisms to monitor that the products deployed in production or delivered to our customers satisfy their quality goals and taking corrective action when required.
- Solve complex problems at scale across teams, owning the software architecture and technical designs.
- Enable your team for success through interaction with the technical community at an organization level.
- Drive the technical decisions to improve best practices for quality engineering, testing, and operational excellence.
- Participate in all phases of the project lifecycle – gathering requirements, designing solutions, building new interfaces, integration with existing architectures, development, and testing code.
- Build scalable, highly available, and resilient applications by utilizing optimal cloud technologies, programming languages, and frameworks that best suit your use cases.
- Strengthen and grow a data-driven culture, fostering uptake of targeted experimentation and insights generation.
- Support hiring for team vacancies and investments into team and product health.
- Mentor less experienced (Staff) Engineers
What you'll need
- Strong academic background (PhD) in Computer Science or a related field of study with focus on routing and navigation
- Strong Computer Science and development fundamentals, including object-oriented design, data structures, algorithm design, and complexity analysis.
- Demonstrated experience solving complex, real-world problems in a relevant domain at scale, such as routing and navigation, logistics, transportation, supply chain, or network optimization.
- 10+ years of relevant industry experience in creating efficient algorithms or systems to handle large amounts of data, improve processes, or enhance user experience in the routing or navigation space.
- Proven experience in leading test strategies and quality improvement processes for large organizations (100+ engineers).
- Strong knowledge and practice of professional software engineering and best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, performance benchmarking, and operations. Our tech stack heavily relies on C++, Android, Azure.
- Experience defining system architectures at scale and exploring technical feasibility trade-offs while maintaining a focus on quality and reliability.
- Proven ability to design and run targeted experiments to fuel improvement roadmaps
- Strong ability to engage with and influence senior stakeholders and engineering teams in aligning strategic goals with complex technical designs
What we offer
A competitive compensation package, of course.
Time and resources to grow and develop, including a personal development budget and paid leave for learning days, as well as paid access to e-learning resources such as O’Reilly and LinkedIn Learning.
Time to support life outside of work, with enhanced parental leave plus paid leave to care for loved ones and volunteer in local communities.
Work flexibility, where TomTom’ers, in agreement with their manager and team, use both the office and home to focus, collaborate, learn and socialize. It’s all about getting the best out of both worlds – we ask TomTom’ers to come to the office two days a week, and the remaining three are free to be worked in either location.
Improve your home office with a setup budget and get extra support with a monthly allowance.
Enjoy options to work from your home country and abroad for a set number of days each year, to visit family and friends, or to simply explore the world we’re mapping.
Take the holidays you want with a competitive holiday plan, plus an extra day off to celebrate your birthday.
Join annual events like our Hackathon and DevDays to bring your ideas to life with talented teammates from around the world.
Become a part of our inclusive global culture and have the chance to collaborate with a diverse community – we have over 80 nationalities at TomTom!
Find out more about our global benefits and enjoy additional local benefits tailored to your location.
Meet your team
We are Product Unit Directions. We develop software for in-car, mobile and cloud-based navigation applications, solving mobility challenges at scale and making the flow of people and goods on the road safer, easier, and cleaner.
To achieve this and help tens of millions of people around the world, we provide useful information in the form of visual and audio cues to guide the driver along the route and decrease anxiety about being lost. We strive to give our customers a pleasant and safe driving experience, and provide tailored and optimized routes through APIs and SDKs.
At TomTom...
You’ll help people find their way in the world. In 2004, TomTom revolutionized how the world moves with the introduction of the first portable navigation device. Now, we intend to do it again by engineering the first-ever real-time map, the smartest and most useful map on the planet.
Work with a team of 3,700 unique, curious and passionate problem-solvers. Together, we’ll open up a world of possibilities for car manufacturers, enterprises and developers to help people understand and get closer to the world around them.
After you apply
Our recruitment team will work hard to give you a meaningful experience throughout your journey with us, no matter the outcome. Your application will be screened closely and you can rest assured that all follow-up actions will be thorough, from assessments and interviews all the way through onboarding. To find out more about our application process, check out our hiring FAQs.
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