At HERE Technologies, we work with diverse and complex datasets, including:

• Automotive-grade digital maps with detailed road topology and thousands of attributes.

• Large-scale geospatial, dynamic, interactive datasets that change rapidly.

• Fast-changing data streams like traffic, weather, and sensor feeds.

The challenge is to efficiently store, index, analyze, and connect these datasets while ensuring they are easily and reliably available to our users. At the same time, we need to scale and adapt quickly to meet growing demands.

The Solution

Out company enables customers to build, deploy, and manage location-based applications on our cloud infrastructure. With powerful abstractions, state-of-the-art building blocks, and cutting-edge cloud technologies, our map making platform allows customers to ingest, store, share, and analyze location data in real-time. Data can be combined, enriched, and shared among platform members, unlocking even greater potential.

As a 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.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain backend services at scale.

• Own the full software lifecycle, from concept to production.

• Ensure software quality through code reviews, testing, and best practices.

• Work closely with product managers and stakeholders to define and refine requirements.

• Contribute to system architecture and technology selection.

• Participate in on-call rotations to ensure platform reliability.

• Document solutions and maintain internal knowledge bases.

Required Skills and Experience:

• Proficiency in Java
• Familiarity with HTTP, RESTful APIs, and networking (TCP/IP).
• Familiarity with relational databases and SQL (PostgreSQL including PL/pgSQL experience is a plus)
• Strong software design skills and a focus on writing clean, maintainable code
• Solid programming fundamentals and data structures knowledge
• Passion for learning and the ability to adapt to new challenges.
• Strong communication skills and a collaborative mindset

Nice to have

• Exposure to cloud platforms, especially AWS
• Experience with containerization (Docker)
• Exposure to Geographic Information Systems (GIS) at scale.
• Experience with unit, integration, performance, and acceptance testing.
• Exposure to Scala and Node.JS

What we offer:

• A great work-life balance
• Hybrid model of work
• Challenging problems to solve
• Collaborative and encouraging colleagues
• Opportunities to learn, grow and develop: company hackathons, technical talks, and trainings
• Regular feedbacks
• 30 paid vacation days
• Flexible working hours
• Competitive salary plus bonus
• Public Transportation Ticket
• German language course
• Diverse team of fantastic & talented people from 60+ countries worldwide.
• Brown bag talks, team events, BBQ on the rooftop and more!

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Our culture is founded on openness, collaboration and honesty, with colleagues who are brilliant in their field, helpful, resilient, loyal and strive for the best. One team in that everyone makes a difference and everyone is heard.

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.

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.