Principal Architect (JAVA/ Scala) (m/f/x)

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 and the services and products on this platform will be driven by three functions: Product, Engineering and Architecture. HERE is looking for a Principal Architect - m/f/x in Poland to lead the Design and Development of services, products and solutions on the HERE platform.

Your responsibility will be to drive the success of the HERE platform, products and services through deliberate, clear, and consistent architecture, system design, and communication. You will ensure that 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.

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

We enable our teams and our customers to build targeted solutions using HERE Location Platform. Our group focuses on location services such as Routing, Rendering, Search, Geocoding, Positioning, Urban Mobility including using customer supplied data and algorithms. Our customers range from tech, media, and telecommunications, to automotive and retail.

Who are you?

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 domain
• 10+ years of experience in delivering software products or systems in various roles, experience in lead engineer or lead architect roles as well as designing distributed cloud services with high revenue and billions of transactions
• 3+ years in architect roles
• Thought Leader and expert in RESTful API design, scripting, and deployment and testing automation
• Ability to communicate complex systems and solutions in an easy-to-understand way to non-technical stakeholders in English (written/speech)
• Experience in Kubernetes and Docker technology, understanding of microservices architectural style and stream and batch processing
• Experience in AWS cloud technology
• Experience with operating and maintaining large scale distributed systems
• Fluency in Java or Scala
• Hands-on work with engineering teams

Nice to have:

• Fluency in architectural areas of security, network, high-availability, reliability
• Experience with location technology

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 
• fantastic & talented people from 60+ countries worldwide
• Great coworkers and an international environment
• flexible working hours   
• a great work-life balance  
• 25 paid vacation days
• Meal Vouchers
• Vision Support
• Competitive salary plus bonus
• Opportunities to learn, grow and develop company hackathons, technical talks, and trainings
• DevOps working culture in an Agile environment
• Challenging problems to solve
• Brown bag talks, team events and more!

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.

Change is HERE. Apply Now!

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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.

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.