The impact you’ll make
- Driving team performance and way of working, leading to reliable and predictable delivery of business value.
- As a line manager, coaching team members on a growth path that maximizes their potential and unlocks high performance and impact using goal-setting and regular, insightful feedback.
- Establishing yourself as a credible technical leader in the team’s domain, able to also contribute individually.
- Ensuring continuous improvement habit including regular inspect and effective collaboration between the team and stakeholders, including our product organization.
- Fostering adapt follow-ups.
- Staying on top of team health as evidenced by sustainable team dynamics and future-proof engineering best practices.
- Identifying valuable candidates to hire and further grow a diverse, resilient and high-performing team.
- Being an inspiring role model for our engineers.
What you'll need
- Good interpersonal skills, effective in engaging with and influencing senior engineers.
- Up-to-date, hands-on programming skills in one of C++, Java, Kotlin, allowing to support the team by individual contributions when needed.
- Credible, senior development / software engineering experience in a cross-functional team setting.
- Passion to develop and learn engineering management skills.
- Passion to help others grow and succeed.
- Active listening skills.
- Empathy and ability to deeply connect with others.
- Strong sense of ownership.
- Can-do attitude.
- Senior-level software engineering background and algorithmic skills, strength in software system architecture.
Nice to have
- Demonstrated experience leading a team of software engineers.
- Experience running and operating business-critical cloud-based services and APIs (Azure).
- Practical DevOps skills in distributed systems domain.
- Background in the navigation domain.
What we offer
- Competitive compensation package
- Working @ TomTom, our work flexibility program – you and your team decide where is best for you to work depending on the activity you’re doing. This could be at home or in the office
- Home office benefits – you’ll be provided with a one-time home office setup budget to create a safe and ergonomic work environment, as well as a monthly allowance to support home office expenses
- Extended Location Flexibility – with this benefit, you may be eligible to work abroad for up to 30 days in your country of citizenship, or up to 90 calendar days in select countries and states
- Holiday package, including your birthday off
- One paid day off for volunteering
- Hackathons, DevDays and more – at TomTom, you’ll have the opportunity to bring your ideas to life, shaping them to help millions of people around the world
- Learning opportunities – grow at TomTom through our internal learning programs
- Being part of a collaborative and inclusive global culture – we have over 80 nationalities!
- Plus, there will be additional benefits tailored to your work location!
Meet your team
We are Product Unit Directions. We develop software for in-car, mobile and cloud-based navigation applications, solving mobility challenges at scale and making the flow of people and goods on the road safer, easier, and cleaner.
To achieve this and help tens of millions of people around the world, we provide useful information in the form of visual and audio cues to guide the driver along the route and decrease anxiety about being lost. We strive to give our customers a pleasant and safe driving experience, and provide tailored and optimized routes through APIs and SDKs.
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 4,000+ 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.
