Are you ready to tackle complex challenges and drive innovation at scale?
Join us at TomTom as a Staff Engineer, where you'll own software designs, provide expert guidance, and empower your team to achieve excellence. If you're passionate about building scalable, resilient applications and driving technical decisions that shape the future, we want you on our team. Embrace the opportunity to grow, collaborate with top talent, and make a real impact in a flexible and inclusive environment.
Let's push the boundaries of technology together!
What you will do
- Solve complex problems at scale across teams, owning the software architecture and technical designs.
- Provide technical leadership and expertise, acting as a force multiplier.
- Enable your team’s success through interactions with the technical community at an organizational level.
- Drive technical decisions to improve engineering, testing, and operational excellence best practices.
- Participate in all phases of the project lifecycle – gathering requirements, designing solutions, building new interfaces, integrating with existing architectures, developing, and testing code.
- Build scalable, highly available, and resilient applications by utilizing the optimal cloud technologies, programming languages, and frameworks.
- Support hiring for team vacancies and investments into team and product health.
What you will need
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field, or 8+ years of equivalent experience in at least one modern programming language, including Java.
- Proven ability to learn new languages and technologies and lead others in acquiring new skills.
- Comfortable with written and/or verbal communication in English.
- Strong Computer Science and development fundamentals, including object-oriented design, data structures, algorithm design, and complexity analysis.
- Strong knowledge and practice of professional software engineering and best practices for the full software development lifecycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
- Experience defining system architectures and exploring technical feasibility trade-offs.
- Experience building scalable, distributed, production software systems with an understanding of design for performance and reliability.
- Experience working with data processing tools/frameworks and cloud technologies.
Nice to have
- Experience in scaling applications within Machine Learning or Computer vision field.
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 are the ADAS & ADS Product Unit, leading the production of TomTom’s HD maps and ADAS technology.
In a diverse team of applied scientists, engineers, data scientists, and more, equipped with a broad array of expertise, you’ll collaborate on groundbreaking location-based technologies and applications.
More specifically, you’ll be at the forefront of the creation of advanced HD maps. You’ll also help update these in real-time, ensuring our maps are pushing the world forward instantly. These maps will then go on to empower the largest car manufacturers, transportation giants, and major tech companies around 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
our hiring FAQs.
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.
