Lead Software Engineer

What's the role?

The Foundation Engineering team is responsible for shaping the design and content of UniMap, our next-generation core mapping platform at HERE. UniMap is a cutting-edge solution that enables the creation of highly available, high-performance, and near real-time mapping products. It serves as the foundation for delivering scalable and reliable location data to power a wide range of applications.

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As a Lead Software Engineer, you’ll play a key role in a team dedicated to delivering cutting-edge digital maps to some of the world’s leading automakers - including BMW, Volkswagen, Audi, and Daimler. You’ll work on advanced technology that collects and processes massive volumes of road data sourced from millions of connected vehicles, satellites orbiting the Earth, and aircraft capturing aerial imagery.

Your contributions will help transform terabytes of raw sensor data into high-precision digital maps, which are then delivered to vehicles for navigation, driver assistance, and even autonomous driving systems. By joining us, you’ll be directly contributing to the future of mobility and helping bring self-driving cars to our roads.

Responsibilities :

As a Lead Software Engineer in the Foundation Engineering team, you will work independently within an agile team environment. Your core responsibilities will include designing, developing, extending, and maintaining services that power HERE’s next-generation mapping platform, UniMap. You will also take a technical leadership role by coordinating the development of critical components that enable key UniMap system capabilities ensuring performance, scalability, and reliability across the platform.

Who are you?

• Bachelor or master’s degree in Computer Science / Information Systems or equivalent
• At least 8 years of hands-on software development experience, including ownership of complex components or systems
• Team leadership skills and experience are nice to have.
• Excellent applied skills in Java programming, in combination with backend architecture, messaging technologies and related frameworks
• Strong cloud experience, preferably with AWS (EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda), but also familiar with Azure, IBM, or Oracle Cloud
• Strong and applied experience in REST based web service technologies, JSON and XML, SOA and micro services architectures
• Proficiency in at least one modern data streaming or messaging platform such as Kafka, Flink, Pulsar, Kinesis, or Beam
• Strong and applied DBMS & SQL skills, with a strong preference on PostgreSQL
• Experience with containerization and orchestration tools such as Docker and Kubernetes
• Strong experience CI / CD tools, with a preference on GitLab
• Good knowledge of using issue tracking tools (., JIRA), code collaboration tools (., Git / GitLab / GitHub) and team collaboration tools (., Confluence).
• Good knowledge of Linux / Unix – familiar with shell scripting
• Able to translate business and architectural features into quality, consistent software design
• Solid knowledge of programming practices, strive to write great code that is reusable, flexible, and reliable.
• Strong quality mindset is considered a must : unit testing, performance testing, writing testable code
• Self-motivated, well-organized, details-oriented and a strong team player with an agile mindset

What we offer :

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