What you'll do
- Lead technical initiatives across multiple product units and organizations downstream to continuously raise the quality bar of our products and minimize regressions.
- Work with the location platform technical leadership team (Tech LT) to create designs that improve the non-functional and quality aspects of the product.
- Collaborate with product teams to design and architect software that meets quality goals.
- Develop and continuously improve a robust technical testing strategy to ensure bug-free software.
- Deliver technical plans to enhance the quality and reliability of integration testing, including downstream integrators, considering performance and other non-functional aspects.
- Developing or collaborating in the development of tools and systems to test or measure the quality of our products.
- Establishing mechanisms to monitor that the products deployed in production or delivered to our customers satisfy their quality goals and taking corrective action when required.
- Solve complex problems at scale across teams, owning the software architecture and technical designs.
- Enable your team for success through interaction with the technical community at an organization level.
- Drive the technical decisions to improve best practices for quality engineering, testing, and operational excellence.
- Participate in all phases of the project lifecycle – gathering requirements, designing solutions, building new interfaces, integration with existing architectures, development, and testing code.
- Build scalable, highly available, and resilient applications by utilizing optimal cloud technologies, programming languages, and frameworks that best suit your use cases.
- Support hiring for team vacancies and investments into team and product health.
What you'll need
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field and 10+ years of relevant experience.
- Strong Computer Science and development fundamentals, including object-oriented design, data structures, algorithm design, and complexity analysis.
- Proven experience in leading test strategies and quality improvement processes for large organizations (100+ engineers).
- Strong knowledge and practice of professional software engineering and best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, performance benchmarking, and operations.
- Experience defining system architectures at scale and exploring technical feasibility trade-offs while maintaining a focus on quality and reliability.
- Experience in C++ and Android application development is a plus.
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 from home, the office, or even abroad – each team has the flexibility to choose how they work based on business needs.
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're the Navigation SDK team. We work on complex code to develop TomTom's Navigation Software Development Kit, integrating technologies provided by other Product Units and enabling our customers to easily build competitive navigation applications. Your code will also be at the heart of TomTom's navigation products like AmiGO, helping millions of people find their way in the world.
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
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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.
