Who are we?

Ever checked in somewhere on social media? Ever tracked your online orders? You might be using HERE Technologies every single day without even realizing it. You can find us everywhere when it comes to location data: in vehicles, smartphones, drones or third-party apps. We believe that with the right people, we will continue to be a game-changer in the technology industry and improve the daily lives of people around the world. Find out more by clicking the video below or going to here.com.

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. Watch Video

What’s the role?

HERE has placed the development of a Location Platform as a central building block of its strategy. Development of this platform will be driven by three functions, Product, Engineering and Architecture. HERE is looking for a Lead Architect - m/f/x in Krakow, Poland, to lead the Design and Development of Applications and Location Services built on the HERE platform.

Your responsibility will be to drive the success of the HERE platform effort through deliberate, clear, and consistent architecture, system design, and communication. You will ensure that deployment automation and testing is on par with our platform quality. You will be the technical subject matter expert for multiple engineering teams, working with them in an agile and inclusive manner. Your primary focus will be in general products in Automotive domain - services for Electrical Vehicles (EV) charging stations, EV routing, Search of POIs optimized for EV charging, etc.

As part of the HERE platform Architecture group, we are a group of exceptionally talented doers who work passionately to apply cutting-edge and open-source technologies to build a location cloud platform. We work in close partnership with respective product and engineering management teams to ensure success.

We enable our customers to build targeted solutions using HERE Location Platform. The team, that you will be part of, focuses on

• Location Services such as Traffic, Routing, Rendering, Search, Geocoding, Positioning, Urban Mobility, including ingestion and processing of customer supplied data with potentially customer-specific algorithms.
• Location Applications such as Last Mile, Tracking, HERE Navigation, Supply Chain Solutions.

Our customers range from tech, media, and telecommunications, to automotive and retail.

Our collaborative environment offers a good work-life balance, challenging tasks in designing large-scale, high-throughput, secure, and performant cloud services, and freedom to find the right technical solution. Come join our team, shape the future, and change the world.

What’s the role?

You bring a hands-on pragmatic approach and an analytical mind-set with a sound theoretical basis. A background in developing complex distributed cloud systems is very beneficial to be able to successfully lead the architecture work:

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in computer science or similar field
• 3+ years of experience in delivering software products or systems in lead engineer or lead architect roles
• 5+ years of expert level coding skills in C++, Javascript/TypeScript, Java or Scala
• Hands-on experience in all phases of developing complex software systems including architecture, design, prototyping, implementation, testing and deployment
• Expert in RESTful API design, scripting, and deployment and testing automation
• Expert in high throughput data processing in multitenant cloud systems using technologies like AWS ElastiCache, AWS S3, Splunk, AWS RDS
• Experience in Kubernetes and/or Docker technology, understanding of microservices architectural style
• Ability to communicate complex systems and solutions in an easy-to-understand way to non-technical stakeholders
• Very good communication skills and be able to comfortably work in global environment
• Excellent written and spoken English skills

Nice to have:

• Experience with digital mapping industry and related location-based services
• Fluency in architectural areas of security, network, high availability/reliability
• Experience with Spark and/or Flink
• Hands-on knowledge of Agile processes

What we offer?

• This role is eligible for Creative Tax Incentive scheme in Poland” or KUP (Autorskie Koszty 

 Uzyskania Przychodu)

• Work with cutting edge, modern technologies
• Work that makes difference in the world, your work will have direct impact on our products and customers
• Variety in the types of projects
• Freedom to decide how you perform your work
• Challenging problems to solve
• Regular feedbacks
• fantastic & talented people from 60+ countries worldwide, direct partnership with Berlin team 
• flexible working hours  
• a great work-life balance 
• 25 paid vacation days
• Meal Vouchers
• Vision Support
• Competitive salary plus bonus
• Brown bag talks, team events and more!

Our culture is founded on openness, collaboration and honesty, with colleagues who are brilliant in their field, resilient, and above all, strive for the best.

Our offices foster an open environment where good ideas are encouraged and embraced. There's also plenty of flexibility within the company, options for achieving an ideal work/life balance and various other extras on offer.

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.