Senior Scala Engineer – Algorithm & Data Processing

What's the role?

About the Team:

Ever wondered how a global map that enables offline rendering, routing, search, navigation, and traffic assistance fits on a mobile SD card? Join the Compilation Frameworks team, where we’re building the technology behind one of the world’s most advanced digital map formats that is conquering the location market. You will be challenged by a lot of interesting algorithmic, design and performance problems that allow you to leverage and fully unfold your intellectual skills.

As part of our team, you will have the opportunity to create HERE Map - a digital representation of the world - that powers mobile and automobile navigation applications, advanced and autonomous driving systems and serves as a base for numerous location services. Your work will have a global impact: the map you create will be used in millions of cars and on millions of mobile devices across the whole world. You will take advantage of high-end cloud computing, devise a SPARK cluster to process terabytes of all kinds of source data to create a comprehensive, highly compressed, semantically and geo-indexed map content for backend and client services.

You will develop a map compiler framework that enables users of the Here Platform to compile their own data with Here Map Content, the most comprehensive and current source of location data worldwide. In a team of highly skilled professionals you will enjoy a great team atmosphere, highly collaborative spirit and have lots of opportunities to learn and develop your skills as well as to contribute to the team's success.

What You’ll Do

• Design and develop robust, scalable, commercial-grade software.
• Contribute to architectural and design discussions.
• Collaborate on user story creation, effort estimation, and acceptance criteria.
• Conduct peer code reviews and ensure high code quality.
• Write unit and executable acceptance tests.
• Help build and maintain development infrastructure (CI/CD, testing, etc.).
• Contribute to team documentation and internal knowledge sharing.
• Participate in hiring and mentoring new team members.

Who are you?

• 6+ years of professional software development experience.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Expert-level knowledge in at least one of: C++, Java, or Scala with willingness to use Scala 
• Deep knowledge of data structures and basic algorithms
• Very strong level in algorithm engineering
• Expertise in object-oriented design
• Experience in distributed computation
• Experience in large scale data processing
• Passion for clean, maintainable, and efficient code.

Bonus Points For:

• Advanced degree (MSc or PhD) in Computer Science or a related field.
• Experience with Scala and Apache Spark or similar distributed computing frameworks.
• Background in functional and concurrent programming.
• Familiarity with AWS, EMR, and other cloud-based services.
• Experience with modern CI/CD tools (e.g., GitLab, GoCD, Jenkins).
• Working in agile, cross-functional teams across multiple time zones.

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, the US, and Asia, along with multiple smaller locations
• Flexible working hours & a flexible approach to office vs. remote work
• Medical coverage for you and your family
• Yearly variable bonus
• This role is eligible for the Creative Tax Incentive scheme in Poland (KUP – Autorskie Koszty Uzyskania Przychodu)
• Option to work on a B2B contract (please note: benefits, bonus and KUP do not apply in this case)

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.