Lead Software Engineer

What's the role

As a Lead Engineer (Backend) in the Foundation Engineering team, you will work self-sustained in an agile team. Your responsibilities will cover developing, extending, and maintaining tools and services that process data for HERE's global databases.

• Be responsible for providing design and development leadership in delivering new software products and tools from the ground up and extending and maintaining them in an innovative environment used for processing map data.
• Implement tools to enhance both automated and semi-automated map data processing, involving backend/service-based software stacks, but also dashboard components for data tracking and analysis.
• Apply and extend CI/CD tools and execute end-2-end ownership of your developed software stack, including DevOps and testing aspects
• Work closely with other full stack and frontend engineers on the team to de/-refine APIs and system integrations
• Work with other engineering teams and internal customers to identify new opportunities, address critical needs, and solve complex problems using your backend development expertise
• Become an expert at leveraging internal platform resources and APIs
• Drive initiatives that contribute to development of software that is efficient, reusable and reliable (e.g. agile, coding, verification)
• Be part of an agile team, share knowledge, carry out code reviews

Who are you

• Bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science/Information Systems or equivalent
• 8+ years of software development experience
• Excellent applied skills in Java/or Scala programming, in combination with backend architectures, and related frameworks.
• Strong and applied experience in REST-based web service technologies, JSON and XML, SOA, and microservices architectures.
• Strong experience in Apache frameworks - Kafka, Spark, Flink.
• Strong and applied RDBMS & NoSQL skills, with a strong preference for Oracle, PostgreSQL / MongoDB/AWS Dynamo DB.
• Experience in applied AWS skills (EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, SNS, Lambda's), as well as experience with virtualization tools like Docker -

  Good to have.

• Strong experience with CI/CD tools, with a preference for Jenkins or Gitlab.
• Able to translate business and architectural features into quality, consistent software design
• A strong quality mindset is considered a must: unit testing, performance testing, writing testable code
• Self-motivated, well-organized, detail-oriented, and a strong team player with an agile mindset.

HERE is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, age, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, parental status, religion, sex, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics.

Who are we

HERE Technologies is a location data and technology platform company. We empower our customers to achieve better outcomes - from helping a city manage its infrastructure or a business optimize its assets to guiding drivers to their destination safely.

At HERE we take it upon ourselves to be the change we wish to see. We create solutions that fuel innovation, provide opportunity and foster inclusion to improve people's lives. If you are inspired by an open world and driven to create positive change, join us. Learn more about us on our YouTube Channel.