Senior Software Engineer (Java or Scala)

What's the role?

At HERE Technologies, we specialize in building advanced solutions powered by location data. Our team works with diverse and complex datasets, including:

• Automotive-grade digital maps with detailed road topology and thousands of attributes.
• Large-scale, dynamic, and interactive geospatial datasets that evolve in real-time.
• High-velocity data streams, such as live traffic, weather updates, and sensor feeds.

Our challenge is to efficiently store, index, analyze, and connect these datasets while ensuring their seamless availability to users. At the same time, we continuously scale and adapt our solutions to meet growing demands.

We empower customers to build, deploy, and manage location-based applications on our cloud infrastructure. Our cutting-edge platform provides powerful abstractions and state-of-the-art building blocks that enable real-time data ingestion, storage, sharing, and analysis. By combining, enriching, and sharing data across platform members, we unlock new opportunities and drive innovation in location intelligence.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will play a key role in shaping and improving our platform.You will be part of a cross-functional, self-organized team, working on mission-critical services that demand high performance, compliance, security, and uptime.

Who are you?

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services.
• Own the entire software development lifecycle, from concept to production.
• Ensure software quality through thorough code reviews, testing, and adherence to best practices.
• Collaborate closely with product managers and stakeholders to define and refine technical requirements.
• Contribute to system architecture, design decisions, and technology selection.
• Participate in on-call rotations to ensure platform reliability and uptime.
• Document solutions and maintain internal knowledge bases to support knowledge sharing.

Required Skills & Experience

• Strong applied skills in Java or Scala programming, in combination with backend architectures and related frameworks.
• Readiness to learn Java / Scala if no experience at this area.
• Strong problem-solving abilities with a passion for continuous learning and growth.
• Ability to quickly adapt to new challenges and evolving technologies.
• Solid understanding of software design principles, with a focus on writing clean, maintainable, and efficient code.
• Experience with unit, integration, performance, and acceptance testing.
• Strong background in object-oriented and functional programming.
• Excellent communication skills and fluency in English.

Nice-to-Have Skills

• Proficiency with HTTP, RESTful APIs, and networking fundamentals (TCP/IP).
• Familiarity with containerization (Docker) and orchestration tools (Kubernetes).
• Experience working with Geographic Information Systems (GIS) at scale.
• Background in distributed computing and cloud-based architectures.
• Proven experience in building high-throughput, low-latency, and highly reliable systems.
• Hands-on experience with Big Data processing frameworks (e.g., Spark, Flink, Presto, Kafka).
• Practical knowledge of high-availability relational and NoSQL databases.

Who are we?

HERE Technologies is a location data and technology platform company. We empower our customers to achieve better outcomes – from helping a city manage its infrastructure or a business optimize its assets to guiding drivers to their destination safely.

At HERE we take it upon ourselves to be the change we wish to see. We create solutions that fuel innovation, provide opportunity and foster inclusion to improve people’s lives. If you are inspired by an open world and driven to create positive change, join us. Learn more about us on our YouTube Channel.

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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.