Engineering Manager III
TomTom
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Belgrade, Serbia
Posted on Apr 8, 2025
As an Engineering Manager III in the Route Planning team, you will be working with cross functional teams of skilled and passionate engineers, managers and applied scientists, developing the core components and algorithms of our latest navigation technologies.
Our components are used in several generations of TomTom and third-party navigation solutions, shaping the navigation experience of millions of drivers around the world.
At the forefront of navigation, we continuously enhance the capabilities of our products and invest actively into maintaining a leading position in the routing and navigation domains.
We are actively hiring for our Belgrade office (a major engineering hub in our organization) to secure these objectives.
What you'll need
- As Engineering Manager III, you are accountable for the outcomes achieved by your team. You manage several engineering teams, directly or indirectly via other Engineering Managers.
- As the most senior Engineering Manager in our Belgrade office, you will play a leading role in curating and growing the site as a respected and attractive Location Technology competence center.
- You will grow thefuture leaders in engineering and management. As Engineering Manager III, you will role model and strengthen our people management capability in the Belgrade site.
- Your performance is significantly based on the business impact of your team, as well as the extent to which the team develops top talent through daily business.
- You set guidelines and policies for all developers in your team by aligning with peers, the industry and tech leads. You add value to our software engineering practices by challenging and improving the process and applying best practices from the industry.
- Your most important tool for delivering results is identifying growth opportunities, empowering team members to take ownership and coaching them to success and doing a little bit better every day.
- Beyond helping your team to be successful, you show leadership by identifying opportunities and taking ownership of initiatives outside of your team's scope.
- You define a team topology and staffing plan that sets the team for success. The growth of team members, team health, career planning and performance management are playing a supporting role here.
- You will be a member of the Engineering Leadership core team, as a steering group for the Route Planning department (AKA "Product Team").
- You can engage with and challenge senior and staff engineers in your org, ensuring they take a broad perspective and tackle challenging business problems in a data-driven and methodical way.
- Finally, you lead your team to deliver high quality scalable production software, predictably and with high velocity!
What you'll need
- We are looking for an experienced Engineering Manager with a history of leading larger product teams (25+ engineers), managing multiple engineering managers anda solid understanding of modern incremental and iterative software product development and its implications.
- You have a proven ability to understand the business, the technology applied and the product. This will help you to assess the impact of what the teams deliver and take ownership for shaping the direction of the team and its systems in line with business objectives and strategy.
- You are highly empathetic, an excellent communicator, a true role model for leadership inputs and principles, and enjoy helping others to be successful just as much as having individual impact.
- You have sufficient technical skills from your background in software development. You mainly use these skills to identify, evaluate, and grow talent, and ensure the team is staffed well and moving in the right direction.
- Experience in managing empowered Product Teams, in close collaboration with Product Management and UX are a big plus.
- Good understanding of the engineering challenges in the navigation software landscape.
- Solid knowledge about tooling, frameworks, and technologies required to build complex software solutions at scale.
- You are inspired by Domain Driven Design principles and have proven experience applying those principles to bring complex systems to production.
- Experience with A/B testing and experimentation platforms.
What's in it for you
- A dynamic environment where you are exposed to the key players in the automotive world. The major brands in the world have decided to use TomTom navigation solutions and millions of cars world-wide drive with the solutions you help create.
- An opportunity to actively shape and put your mark on a fast-growing engineering site in Belgrade.
- Freedom to make your local decisions, giving you a mandate on critical aspects of the business.
- A competitive compensation package including a performance bonus.
- You will be exposed to a team with a long history in the navigation industry, you will learn how to operate best to deliver to the mission and strengthen your skills.
- Your ideas for improvement will be embraced and embedded in the roadmap in cooperation with our UX and Product staff.
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.
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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