Software Engineer II/III
TomTom
Software Engineering
Madrid, Spain
Posted on Mar 13, 2025
Join TomTom as a Software Engineer III (or II) and Shape the Future of Navigation
Are you ready to transform how millions of people move around the world?
At TomTom, we’re looking for curious minds who love solving complex problems and want to build inclusive, game-changing location technologies. Our teams thrive on collaboration, personal growth, and seeing real-world impact. If you’re passionate about developing solutions that will guide drivers and businesses worldwide, read on!
Why you’ll love working with us
- Empowering environment: we celebrate diverse perspectives and strive for an inclusive culture where everyone’s ideas count.
- Impact at scale: your code will directly influence the everyday journeys of millions of users.
- Growth and mentorship: you’ll have the chance to mentor and be mentored, share knowledge, and elevate your skills in an atmosphere of continuous learning.
- Technical excellence: tackle challenging tasks involving real-time data, performance optimization, and innovative geospatial tech—perfect for curious problem solvers.
What you’ll do
- Design and build: craft high-quality, maintainable software that delivers a stellar navigation experience—covering new features, optimizations, and refactoring challenges.
- Own your projects: take accountability for end-to-end delivery, from initial architecture decisions to deployment. Contribute to process improvements that boost team efficiency and product reliability.
- Collaborate widely: work closely with cross-functional stakeholders, such as Product Managers and Program Managers, to ensure technical solutions align with real customer needs.
- Mentor and lead: offer guidance to junior colleagues and help shape our hiring efforts. Inspire your teammates with thoughtful code reviews and knowledge sharing.
- Champion best practices: drive operational excellence by ensuring code is well-tested, scalable, and meticulously documented.
Who you are
- Experienced engineer: you have 3+ years of professional software development experience (less experience may be considered at an SE II level). You’re confident in at least one core discipline (e.g., back-end, mobile, or data engineering) and have a broad understanding of related fields.
- Problem solver: you thrive on unraveling complex issues. You balance creativity with practicality, identifying when to adopt existing solutions or invent new ones.
- Team player: you’re energized by working collaboratively. You’re as eager to learn from others as you are to share your insights.
- Quality-focused: your code is logical, testable, efficient, and well-documented. You understand that operational excellence is crucial for products that need to perform flawlessly at scale.
- Communicator: you present ideas clearly and confidently—whether advising peers, collaborating with your manager, or supporting product stakeholders.
Nice to have
- Strong experience in Android development using Kotlin and/or Java
- Background in building developer tools, SDKs, or libraries.
- Experience with geospatial or routing algorithms.
- Familiarity with CI/CD, DevOps, or other modern development practices.
- Contributions to open-source or external developer communities.
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 the Navigation SDK team. We work on complex code to develop TomTom's Navigation Software Development Kit, integrating technologies provided by other Product Units and enabling our customers to easily build competitive navigation applications. Your code will also be at the heart of TomTom's navigation products like AmiGO, helping millions of people find their way in the world.
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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