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Senior Software Engineer

TomTom
The Netherlandsfull_timeVerifiedPosted 19 May 2025

About the role

What you'll do:

  • Lead development of our multi-language monorepo and Bazel build system. Ensuring that developer tooling needs are met and our team of over 100+ engineers are supported. 
  • Drive the technical decisions to improve engineering, test, and operational excellence best practices 
  • Participate to all phases of the project lifecycle – gathering requirements, designing solutions, building new interfaces, integration with existing architectures, development, and testing code 
  • Build scalable, highly available and resilient applications by utilizing the optimal cloud technologies and programming languages and frameworks that best suit your use cases 
  • Enable your team for success through interactions with your partner teams 
  • Take ownership of responsibilities and lead changes within the team. Lead and own small initiatives outside of your team 
  • Support hiring for team vacancies, and investments into team and product health

What you'll need:

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field or 5+ years of equivalent experience in at least one modern programming language 
  • Proven ability to learn new languages and technologies, and lead others in acquiring new skills 
  • Experience with Bazel or similar build systems  
  • Comfortable with written and/or verbal communication in English 
  • Strong Computer Science and development fundamentals, including object-oriented design, data structures, algorithm design, and complexity analysis. 
  • Strong knowledge and practice of 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 
  • Experience writing system designs at the component level and exploring technical feasibility trade-offs 
  • Experience working with data processing tools/frameworks and cloud technologies 
What we offer
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 – we ask TomTom’ers to come to the office two days a week, and the remaining three are free to be worked in either location.
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! 
Find out more about our global benefits and enjoy additional local benefits tailored to your location. 

Meet your team
We are the ADAS & ADS Product Unit, leading the production of TomTom’s HD maps and ADAS technology.  In a diverse team of applied scientists, engineers, data scientists, and more, equipped with a broad array of expertise, you’ll collaborate on groundbreaking location-based technologies and applications.  More specifically, you’ll be at the forefront of the creation of advanced HD maps. You’ll also help update these in real-time, ensuring our maps are pushing the world forward instantly. These maps will then go on to empower the largest car manufacturers, transportation giants, and major tech companies around the world.

At TomTom...
You’ll help people find their way in the world. In 2004, TomTom revolutionized how the world moves with the introduction of the first portable navigation device. Now, we intend to do it again by engineering the first-ever real-time map, the smartest and most useful map on the planet.
Work with a team of 3,700 unique, curious and passionate problem-solvers. Together, we’ll open up a world of possibilities for car manufacturers, enterprises and developers to help people understand and get closer to the world around them.

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