Lead Software Engineer (Java/Scala)

What's the role?
At HERE Technologies, we specialize in building advanced solutions powered by location data. Our team works with diverse and complex datasets, including:

• Automotive-grade digital maps with detailed road topology and thousands of attributes.
• Large-scale, dynamic, and interactive geospatial datasets that evolve in real-time.
• High-velocity data streams, such as live traffic, weather updates, and sensor feeds.

Our challenge is to efficiently store, index, analyze, and connect these datasets while ensuring their seamless availability to users. At the same time, we continuously scale and adapt our solutions to meet growing demands.
We empower customers to build, deploy, and manage location-based applications on our cloud infrastructure. Our cutting-edge platform provides powerful abstractions and state-of-the-art building blocks that enable real-time data ingestion, storage, sharing, and analysis. By combining, enriching, and sharing data across platform members, we unlock new opportunities and drive innovation in location intelligence.
As a Lead Software Engineer, you will play a key role in shaping and improving our platform.
You will be part of a cross-functional, self-organized team, working on mission-critical services that demand high performance, compliance, security, and uptime.
Who are you?
Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services.
• Own the full software development lifecycle, from concept to production.
• Ensure software quality through thorough code reviews, testing, and best practices.
• Collaborate with product managers and stakeholders to define and refine technical requirements.
• Contribute to system architecture and play a key role in technology selection.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to team members, fostering a culture of learning and growth.
• Drive technical excellence and promote best practices across teams.
• Evaluate and introduce new technologies to enhance performance and scalability.
• Guide architectural decisions to ensure long-term maintainability and system scalability.
• Participate in on-call rotations to maintain platform reliability.
• Document solutions and maintain internal knowledge bases to support effective knowledge sharing.

Required Skills and Experience

• Proven expertise in Java or Scala, with deep knowledge of backend architectures, distributed systems, and scalable infrastructure.
• Readiness to learn Java / Scala if no experience at this area.
• Passion for learning and the ability to quickly adapt to new challenges.
• Strong software design skills with a focus on writing clean, maintainable, and efficient code.
• Hands-on experience withunit, integration, performance, and acceptance testing.
• Strong background in object-oriented and functional programming.
• Strong applied skills in Java, with experience in backend architectures and related frameworks.
• Proficiency in HTTP, RESTful APIs, and networking fundamentals (TCP/IP).
• Familiarity with containerization (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes).
• Excellent communication skills and fluency in English.

Nice-to-Have Skills

• Experience working with Geographic Information Systems (GIS) at scale.
• Background in distributed computing and cloud-based architectures.
• Proven track record in building high-throughput, low-latency, and highly reliable systems.
• Hands-on experience with Big Data processing frameworks (e.g., Spark, Flink, Presto, Kafka).
• Practical knowledge of high-availability relational and NoSQL databases.

What do we offer?

• Work on the development of high-scale services, managing thousands of data processing pipelines
• Innovative and modern technologies
• Truly international team of fantastic & talented people from 60+ countries worldwide, working from strong tech hubs located in Europe, US and Asia and multiple smaller locations
• Flexible working hours & flexible approach for office vs. remote work
• Medical cover for you and your family
• Competitive salary plus yearly variable bonus
• This role is eligible for Creative Tax Incentive scheme in Poland" or KUP (Autorskie Koszty Uzyskania Przychodu)
• B2B contracts possible

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.
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As part of 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.