Senior Software Engineer - Performance & Innovation
TomTom
Software Engineering
Berlin, Germany
Posted on Oct 18, 2024
Are you ready to lead technical advancements and raise the bar for performance in data processing?
We’re searching for a Senior Software Engineer who is passionate about driving innovation and optimizing complex systems. If you love solving challenges, enjoy sharing your knowledge, and want to make a direct impact, this is the role for you!
What you'll do
- Boost performance: You’ll optimize our data systems to run highly parallel and more efficiently, to keep up with increasing data volume.
- Improve & maintain: Work on our real-time traffic data processing system. Extend our existing Java / Spring modular monolith and deploy changes to our Linux on Azure environment.
- Innovate: Bring new ideas to life, introducing cutting-edge solutions that redefine how we process and utilize data.
- Develop features: Work on refining existing features, ensuring smooth functionality and performance.
- Collaborate across teams: You’ll partner with data scientists, engineers, and product teams to implement impactful changes and improvements.
- Mentor & support: While leadership isn’t your primary focus, you’ll coach juniors and mediors, helping them grow and contributing to a positive, knowledge-sharing environment.
What you bring
- Proven expertise in optimization: Strong experience in tuning and enhancing complex software systems, particularly those that handle large-scale data.
- Innovative problem solver: You love simplifying complicated issues and coming up with fresh, scalable solutions.
- Strong technical foundation: Expertise in Java, C++, Scala, Python, or similar languages, with a in-depth understanding of algorithms, multithreaded data processing, and efficient system design.
- Collaborative approach: You’re comfortable working with different teams and communicating technical insights in a clear, accessible way.
- Mentorship mindset: You’re happy to coach less experienced team members, supporting their growth and encouraging best practices.
- Interested in traffic topics: Be ready to work with our one-of-its-kind real-time traffic dataset, identify know traffic patterns and help to provide better reports and also forecasts
- Be ready to work with our one-of-its-kind real-time traffic dataset, identify know traffic patterns and help to provide better reports and also forecasts.
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’re Maps, a global team within TomTom’s Location Technology Products technical unit. Our team is driven to deliver the most up-to-date, accurate and detailed maps for hundreds of millions of users around the world. Joining our team, you’ll continuously innovate our mapmaking processes, directly contributing to our vision: engineering the world's most trusted and useful map.
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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