What you’ll do
- You’ll be leading a cross-functional development team (6-10 developers). Your challenges as a team lead include
- Driving team performance and way of working, leading to reliable and predictable delivery of business value.
- As a line manager, coaching team members on a growth path that maximizes their potential and unlocks high performance and impact using goal-setting and regular, insightful feedback.
- Establishing yourself as a credible technical leader in the team’s domain, able to also contribute individually.
- Ensuring continuous improvement habit including regular inspect and effective collaboration between the team and stakeholders, including our product organization.
- Fostering adapt follow-ups.
- Staying on top of team health as evidenced by sustainable team dynamics and future-proof engineering best practices.
- Identifying valuable candidates to hire and further grow a diverse, resilient and high-performing team.
- Being an inspiring role model for our engineers.
What you’ll need
- In order to succeed in this challenge, you’ll want to tap into your
- Good interpersonal skills, effective in engaging with and influencing senior engineers.
- Up-to-date, hands-on programming skills in one of C++, Java, Kotlin, allowing to support the team by individual contributions when needed.
- Credible, senior development / software engineering experience in a cross-functional team setting.
- Passion to develop and learn engineering management skills.
- Passion to help others grow and succeed.
- Active listening skills.
- Empathy and ability to deeply connect with others.
- Strong sense of ownership.
- Can-do attitude.
- Senior-level software engineering background and algorithmic skills, strength in software system architecture.
What’s nice to have
- Demonstrated experience leading a team of software engineers.
- Experience running and operating business-critical cloud-based services and APIs (Azure).
- Practical DevOps skills in distributed systems domain.
- Background in the navigation domain.
Meet your team (1/3)
We’re Product UnitDirections, a product unit within TomTom’s Location Technology Products technical unit. We develop software for onboard, hybrid, and online navigation applications – used by tens of millions of people around the world. Our software includes navigation domain logic for traffic-dependent routing and route guidance, and an innovative Electric Vehicle suite; we change the way digital maps are designed and used for navigation. On our team, you’ll see your work transforming connected and embedded navigation around the world.
What we offer
- Competitive compensation package. · Work flexibility program (Woe office benefits, with a setup budget and a monthly allowing @ TomTom) – work from both home and the office!
- Chance to work abroad for 90-calendar days in select countries and states!
- Holiday package that includes your birthday off and a volunteering day per year.
- Bring your ideas and innovation to life during our Hackathon, DevDays, and more!
- Take on learning opportunities – internal programs, O’Reilly and LinkedIn learning.
- The opportunity to join one of the few top tech location specialists and have an impact on the future of mobility.
- Be part of a supportive, inclusive, and global culture.
After you apply
- First call: If your application matches the role, then it’s time to put a voice to the name! We’ll call you to set up an interview.
- First interview: In this interview, we want to know more about you – what excites you about location technology and how can you help us solve global challenges.
- Online assessment: We’ll set you an assignment – use your expertise to show us what you’ve got.
- Second interview: We'll dive into your potential role, showing you how you’ll fit into your team and contribute to our vision.
- The final decision: Cue the fireworks, because we’ll start the onboarding!