Team:
The Mapmaking team sits at the heart of HERE’s mission to create the world’s most accurate, up-to-date, and intelligent maps. We design and operate scalable pipelines for onboarding massive datasets from customers and partners, while developing and optimizing geospatial processing services that transform raw map inputs into high-quality, production-ready products. Our work spans innovation in AI, big data, and algorithmic evolution to advance how maps are processed, validated, and enriched, supporting both large-scale customer programs with premium automotive brands and multi-industry partners, as well as internal transformation initiatives.
Responsibilities:
HERE Technologies is looking for an experienced Lead Software Engineer to join our highly motivated Mapmaking team in Germany. The Mapmaking team builds and operates core technologies and services for onboarding, processing, and quality assuring digital map data.
You will focus on designing and developing high-scale geospatial processing systems, building cloud-native services, and evolving backend data pipelines that support map content creation and validation.
Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services and data processing pipelines for map content and geospatial data.
Contribute to and review architectural designs for distributed systems and cloud services.
Collaborate cross-functionally with engineers, product managers, data scientists, and architects to define technical solutions.
Mentor junior engineers and support technical best practices across the team.
Drive operational excellence by contributing to CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, and automated testing.
Ensure high software quality standards and reliability in production environments.
Investigate and adopt emerging technologies in geospatial processing, cloud infrastructure, and big data frameworks.
Work closely with colleagues in Europe and around the globe.
Tech Stack: Java, Scala, Python, SQL, AWS, Docker, GitLab, Spark, Kafka, and GeoJSON. NOTE: This is an individual contributor (IC) position.
Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Geo-Informatics, or a related field.
Strong knowledge of software architecture, design, and code review.
Experience building high-throughput, low-latency, and highly reliable systems at scale.
Familiarity with HTTP, REST, JSON, and microservices architectures
Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure cloud environments
Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and container orchestration.
Strong background in DevOps practices and CI/CD, with tools such as JIRA, Git, and GitLab.
Excellent communication skills in English, both written and spoken.
Knowledge of geospatial data handling, frameworks, libraries (JTS, Apache Sedona), and GeoJSON
What Do We Offer?
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As part of the 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.
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