At HERE Technologies, we're looking for a Lead Software Engineer to design and develop backend services that process large-scale, real-time traffic data. You'll be responsible for the full development lifecycle, from performance improvements to supporting production systems, while mentoring team members and collaborating across multiple engineering groups.

What You'll Do

Design and develop backend services that process large-scale real-time traffic data.
Work across the full development lifecycle, drive performance improvements, and support production systems.
Collaborate with multiple engineering teams.
Guide best practices and mentor team members.
Develop and maintain tools and processes that support development, automation testing, and deployment of software components.
Develop and enhance configuration management tools for software components.
Create and execute approved test plans and analyze and report results.
Decompose requirements for testability and provide feedback to the requirement gathering process.
Interact with customers/users to support software acceptance process and act as a liaison between development and user community.
Implement various algorithms to do automated feature extraction and dataset augmentation.
Optimize runtimes of neural network algorithms and build higher level abstractions for various common AI/ML techniques.
Perform low level performance optimization of deep learning systems.

What We're Looking For

Bachelor or master’s degree in Computer Science/Information Systems or equivalent.
8+ years of software development experience.
Excellent applied skills in Java and/or Scala programming, in combination with backend architectures, messaging technologies and related frameworks.
Cloud Experience (AWS/Azure/IBM/Oracle).
Strong and applied experience in REST based web service technologies, JSON and XML, SOA and micro services architectures.
Strong and applied DBMS & SQL skills, with a strong preference on PostgreSQL / PostGIS.
Able to translate business and architectural features into quality, consistent software design.
Solid knowledge of programming practices, strive to write great code that is reusable, flexible, and reliable.
Strong quality mindset is considered a must: unit testing, performance testing, writing testable code.
Self-motivated, well-organized, details-oriented and a strong team player with an agile mindset.

Technical Stack

Languages: Java, Scala
Cloud: AWS, Azure, IBM Cloud, Oracle Cloud
Architectures: REST, SOA, Microservices
Data Formats: JSON, XML
Databases: PostgreSQL, PostGIS

Team & Environment

You will be part of a collaborative, engineering-focused team responsible for integrating and processing large-scale, real-time traffic datasets and safety-related events.

Benefits & Compensation

Opportunity to work in a cutting-edge technology environment with challenging problems to solve.
Direct impact on delivery of company's strategic goals and the freedom to decide how to perform your work.
Support in delivering day-to-day tasks and achieving personal goals and developing skills.
Personal development is highly encouraged.
Take different courses and training at our online Learning Campus.
Join cross-functional team projects within our Talent Platform.

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.