What's the role?
At HERE Technologies, we work with diverse and complex datasets, including:
1. Automotive-grade digital maps with detailed road topology and thousands of attributes.
2. Large-scale geospatial, dynamic, interactive datasets that change rapidly.
3. Fast-changing data streams like traffic, weather, and sensor feeds.
The challenge is to efficiently store, index, analyze, and connect these datasets while ensuring they are easily and reliably available to our users. At the same time, we need to scale and adapt quickly to meet growing demands.
The Solution
Out company enables customers to build, deploy, and manage location-based applications on our cloud infrastructure. With powerful abstractions, state-of-the-art building blocks, and cutting-edge cloud technologies, our map making platform allows customers to ingest, store, share, and analyze location data in real-time. Data can be combined, enriched, and shared among platform members, unlocking even greater potential.
As a Lead Software Engineer, you will be responsible for the technical leadership and delivery of key initiatives across the platform. You will guide architectural decisions, mentor engineers across teams, and collaborate closely with leadership to define the long-term vision of our systems. This is a highly impactful role where you’ll shape the engineering roadmap, ensure technical excellence, and drive innovation at scale.
Responsibilities:
4. Lead the design and development of core backend systems with a focus on scalability, security, and reliability.
5. Serve as a technical authority and mentor, supporting the growth of engineers across multiple teams.
6. Partner with product, architecture, and leadership to translate business goals into actionable engineering plans.
7. Drive architectural direction, technical roadmaps, and platform strategy.
8. Set and uphold high standards for engineering practices, code quality, and team collaboration.
9. Influence platform-wide technology decisions and drive the adoption of best practices.
10. Coordinate and oversee the successful delivery of complex cross-team projects.
11. Foster a culture of ownership, inclusion, innovation, and continuous improvement.
Who are you?
Required Skills and Experience:
12. 8+ years of backend engineering experience with a strong track record in Java.
13. Deep expertise in system architecture, distributed systems, and large-scale backend design.
14. Experience leading technical projects and mentoring engineers at various levels.
15. Advanced knowledge of APIs, networking (TCP/IP), and cloud infrastructure (preferably AWS).
16. Strong database design and optimization experience, with PostgreSQL/PLpgSQL expertise.
17. Excellent communication skills, with the ability to influence and collaborate across disciplines.
18. Proven ability to take initiative, solve complex problems, and deliver in ambiguous environments.
19. Experience working in an agile environment with CI/CD and DevOps practices.
Nice to Have:
20. Background in geospatial systems, data pipelines, or spatial analytics.
21. Proficiency in Scala,, or other relevant languages.
22. Experience with Apache Spark or similar distributed data processing technologies.
23. Hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes, or cloud-native microservices.
What we offer:
24. A great work-life balance
25. Hybrid model of work
26. Challenging problems to solve
27. Collaborative and encouraging colleagues
28. Opportunities to learn, grow and develop: company hackathons, technical talks, and trainings
29. Regular feedbacks
30. 30 paid vacation days
31. Flexible working hours
32. Competitive salary plus bonus
33. Public Transportation Ticket
34. German language course
35. Diverse team of fantastic & talented people from 60+ countries worldwide.
36. Brown bag talks, team events, BBQ on the rooftop and more!
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Our culture is founded on openness, collaboration and honesty, with colleagues who are brilliant in their field, helpful, resilient, loyal and strive for the best. One team in that everyone makes a difference and everyone is heard.
As part of HERE Technologies employment process, candidates will be required to successfully complete a pre-employment screening process. This offer and any related claims are subject to the successful completion of a pre-employment screening. This will involve employment, education, and criminal verification if applicable.
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.