Senior Software Engineer
TomTom
Software Engineering
Madrid, Spain
Posted on Oct 9, 2024
Are you ready to make a real impact on millions of users around the globe?
As a Senior Software Engineer, you’ll be the driving force behind the performance and efficiency of our Navigation SDK, ensuring our systems run smoothly and reliably. If you’re passionate about solving challenges and optimizing performance, this is the place for you!
What you'll do:
- Lead Performance Analysis: dive into the Navigation SDK, uncover bottlenecks, and fine-tune performance metrics like power consumption, memory usage, and system speed. You’ll ensure our SDK is running at its absolute best.
- Collaborate & Innovate: work closely with both software and hardware teams to optimize every layer, from SDK codebase to hardware architecture, creating solutions that scale.
- Test & Benchmark: you’ll be responsible for performance testing and benchmarking, guaranteeing high availability, scalability, and responsiveness across our tech stack (Android, Java, JVM, Azure).
- Mentor & Lead: guide a team of engineers, inspiring them to reach new levels of technical excellence and collaborative problem-solving.
- System Optimization: design and implement strategies to improve startup times, memory management, and overall system performance, making our SDK lightning-fast and efficient.
What you'll need:
- 3-8 years of experience in software engineering, focusing on system performance (bonus points if you have C++ skills in Linux!).
- A track record of optimizing complex, distributed systems using Android, JVM, Kotlin, Java, and Azure.
- Low-level debugging expertise—you know your way around hardware performance counters and trace analysis.
- A deep understanding of hardware-software interaction and experience influencing hardware design to boost performance.
- Leadership experience: You’ve mentored and managed teams, driving innovation and technical improvements.
Nice to have:
- Experience with Navigation SDKs or other large-scale software solutions.
- Familiarity with performance optimization at the kernel and hardware levels.
- Hands-on with benchmarking tools, memory management, and CPU performance analysis.
- Strong problem-solving skills, with a focus on boosting system efficiency and reliability.
Interview process:
- Codility test:
- A 70-minute challenge focused on data structures and algorithms. This is your chance to showcase your technical skills and problem-solving abilities!
- Alignment call:
- A brief call with our recruitment team to align on the next steps. We’ll answer any questions and ensure you clearly understand the process.
- Comprehensive interview session:
- We’ll dive into multiple areas to see the full scope of your skills:
- We’ll explore how you demonstrate ownership, accountability, and influence.
- Show us how you approach system design, create maintainable solutions, and tackle complex challenges with ease.
- We want to see how you impress the customer, continuously strive to be better, and maintain a proactive attitude.
We believe in a transparent, efficient process, and we can’t wait to see you shine.
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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 from home, the office, or even abroad – each team has the flexibility to choose how they work based on business needs.
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 the Map Visualization Product Unit. We develop map rendering technology that can be integrated into navigation systems and location-based applications, providing our technology to our customers in the form of cloud-based APIs and SDKs.
We see quality-management processes as a source of competitive advantage. As part of our product-led and outcome-oriented culture, we believe it is crucial to have mechanisms in place to measure and improve the quality of our products in a continuous manner so we can achieve our mission of mapping the world in real time.
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.
TomTom is an equal opportunity employer
TomTom is where you can find your place in the world. Every day we welcome, nurture and celebrate differences. Why? Because your uniqueness is what makes you, you. No matter your culture or background, you’ll find your impact at TomTom. Research also shows that sometimes women and underrepresented communities can be hesitant to apply for positions unless they believe they meet 100% of the criteria. If you can relate to this, please know that we’d love to hear from you.
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