Principal Software Engineer (Java/Scala)

What's the role?As a Principal Engineer in our Foundation Engineering team, you will enable the creation of mapping products that are highly available, performant, and near real-time. You will lead initiatives that deliver digital maps to major automakers and work on technologies that collect and process road information from multiple sources, including terabytes of data from millions of connected vehicles. These services convert input into digital maps used for navigation, driver assistance, and autonomous driving. Your responsibilities include:

• Providing technical leadership and building proof-of-concepts to validate technologies and architectural approaches.
• Developing well-crafted software that steadily adds business value.
• Driving initiatives for efficient, reusable, and reliable software development.
• Collaborating within an agile team, sharing knowledge, conducting code reviews, and maintaining proactive communication.
• Staying current with emerging technologies and advocating for their adoption.
• Optimizing development processes to boost team effectiveness

Who are you?You are an experienced engineering leader with:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or Information Systems.
• 11+ years of application development experience with strong understanding of agile principles.
• Strong quality mindset with expertise in system design, scalability, performance, and testing.
• Advanced object-oriented design skills and familiarity with modern architecture patterns.
• Strong fundamentals in Java and Scala.
• Expertise in AWS Cloud services.
• Solid problem-solving skills with knowledge of data structures, algorithms, multithreading, and design patterns.
• Understanding of microservices, web services, REST, HTTP, and JSON.
• Experience with big data processing and architecture (Kafka, Flink, Spark).
• Infrastructure experience with Maven, Git, Kubernetes, Docker, and Linux.
• Excellent communication skills in English.
• Moderate knowledge of Python, AI/ML, and GIS.

What Do We Offer?

• Challenging problems to solve and opportunities to learn new technologies.
• Work that makes a real difference in the world.
• Opportunities to develop and mentor talent within your team.
• Variety in projects and exposure to global collaboration.
• A supportive and inclusive culture that values innovation and teamwork.

HERE Technologies is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, or disability.

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.