What's the role?
We in the Find team make the world's addresses and places findable. Our daily work is all about optimizing and writing new code, coming up with new or improved ways to understand the query of our customers and enhancing our APIs. We are proud to have top software engineers, machine learning specialists and mathematicians in our team which is spread across offices in the USA, India and Germany.
The HERE Find team provides services for accurate location information retrieval and plays a key role in the HERE platform. Well-known enterprises leverage our services and platform for locating addresses and location tracking at a rate of thousands of hits each second.
We are looking for a passionate, experienced software engineer to strengthen our API team.
The API is at the forefront of the Geocoding & Search service, our face to customers.
Per month it is serving tens of billions of requests, tens of thousands of customers, and collecting millions of end-user signals, all growing. For this, it has to be highly concurrent, highly scalable and super resilient.
As part of the team, you will:
1. Work with a diverse team of skilled people
2. Work on efficiency and correctness of the existing software
3. Analyze, design and implement software that scales using up-to-date and future technologies
4. Improve Find products with respect to quality of results, quality of software design, performance, stability and maintainability
5. Write/update tests and documentation
6. Conduct peer reviews
LINK: /docs/bundle/geocoding-and-search-api-developer-guide/page/
Who are you?
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.
You should have these qualifictions
7. Strong experience with Scala, ideally from having worked on highly scalable services or platforms and/or micro services in a cloud environment
8. Experience writing and working with REST APIs
9. Sound understanding of basic algorithms and data structures
10. Expertise in backend services, concurrency, multi-threading and memory management
11. Self-driven and goal oriented
12. Good communicator, team player with good written and spoken English
Nice-to-have
13. Experience in Java
14. Experience with Apache Pekko for building APIs
15. Experience with AWS, scripting and automation
16. Good working knowledge in *NIX operating systems (+scripting,. python, bash,…)
17. You love writing testable, readable, maintainable code
18. You know the strengths and weaknesses of Scala and Java and are aware of how they work under the hoods
19. You enjoy developing better algorithms and data structures and can estimate time and space complexities on the fly
20. You are keen on tuning performance and profiling code
21. You are into automation and building tools
22. You are responsible, communicative and open
What we offer?
23. Work with cutting edge, modern technologies
24. Fantastic & talented people from 60+ countries worldwide
25. Great coworkers and an international environment
26. Flexible working hours
27. A great work-life balance
28. Competitive salary plus bonus
29. Opportunities to learn, grow and develop company hackathons, technical talks, and trainings
30. DevOps working culture in an Agile environment
31. Challenging problems to solve
32. Brown bag talks, team events and more!
Change is HERE. Apply Now.
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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.