Hybrid Backend Engineer

at TomTom

• Job title: Backend Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Junior, Mid level
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Cloud, Java, Python, SDLC
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Madrid, Spain

About the role

• Backend Engineer developing solutions for autonomous vehicles within TomTom’s HD Map division. Collaborating on high impact projects in a diverse engineering team in Spain.

Responsibilities

• Join a distributed team of software engineers working on high impact projects for autonomous vehicles, within the HD Map division at TomTom.
• Participate to all phases of the project lifecycle - gathering requirements, designing solutions, building new interfaces, integration with existing architectures, development, and understanding business impact.
• Build scalable, highly available and resilient applications on the backend.
• Take part in driving the technical decisions to improve engineering, test, and operational excellence best practices.

Requirements

• Computer Science and development fundamentals, including object-oriented design, data structures, algorithm design, and complexity analysis.
• 2+ years of professional software development or data engineer experience.
• Experience in Python and Java. Other object-oriented languages are also desirable, if you are willing to adapt to our tech stack.
• Experience in building cloud services.
• Familiarity with professional software engineering and best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
• A proactive attitude towards challenges.
• Proven ability to learn new languages and technologies, and lead others in acquiring new skills.
• Comfortable with written and/or verbal communication in English.

Benefits

• 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 flexibility, where TomTom’ers, in agreement with their manager and team, use both the office and home to focus, collaborate, learn and socialize. It’s all about getting the best out of both worlds.
• 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!