What's the role?

　　HERE is searching for a Software Engineering Manager for our Foundation Engineering team. Foundation Engineering enables the creation of mapping products that are highly available, performant, and near real-time. The Software Engineering Manager will cultivate a team to deliver digital maps to major automakers, e.g., BMWs, VWs, Audi, and Daimler. You will work on a technology to collect and process road information from many sources, terabytes of data, including car sensors from millions of cars on the road. Our services convert this input into a digital map delivered back to the cars and used for navigation, driver assistance, and even autonomous driving. Lead and develop software engineers in building new services that will rapidly launch their differentiated prototypes leveraging templates that enforce security, availability, and efficiency best practices with a minimal collection of service-specific libraries.

　　You are a talented Engineering manager to work in the Foundation Engineering team. The team creates the most comprehensive map products in the market, intended to support a variety of business cases. You manage a team of 5-10 engineers.

　　As a technical leader and an effective people manager you can hold your own in a technical discussion, be a subject matter expert, and have strategic influence.Collaboration with Internal and external customers and stakeholders to understand the Business processes and solution implementations for the acceptance criteria.Perform Technical architectural design and review.You spend time and effort hiring top talent, coaching, and developing people to bring out the best.Follow a documented software development process and be accountable for conformance to software quality standards.Work collaboratively with other engineering teams to ensure cross-functional goals are met.Participating in architecture and design discussions and reviews.Participating in cross-team strategy discussions within the team.Enable the team to execute high-velocity software development, support their needs, and resolve possible conflicts.Communicate with leadership regarding progress against plans, issues, and needs.Work with users and/or product owners to help define application specifications.Lead the team to follow organizational standards and engineering best practices.

　　Who are you?

　　Bachelor's or master’s degree in Computer Science/Information Systems or equivalent with a total of 9 to 14 years of experience

　　3+ years of technical leadership and people management experience.Practical experience in hiring, mentoring, and developing engineers.9+ years of backend application development experience – Java or functional programming language, preferably Scala.Cloud Experience (AWS/Azure/IBM/Oracle).Experience in the development of Service-oriented architecture, Spring framework, and web services.Experience in data structures and algorithms.Infrastructure experience: Maven/SBT, GIT/GERRIT, Apache Spark, Amazon Web Services, Jenkins, Linux Environment.Experience building REST web service clients and servers.Experience in large-scale data processing leveraging frameworks like Hadoop, Map/Reduce, etc.Experience in persistence with relational and NoSQL data stores.Excellent team player with the ability to work within a collaborative environment. 

　　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.

　　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. Watch Video