Senior Software Engineer C++

You will work in the Innovation and Development department for a innovative navigation solutions developer with top international clients in the automotive industry. Together with a motivated team of software developers, you will work on a suite of highly advanced software tools. The software tools are used by the product creation and validation department to create the products for our customers. The work environment is mainly Linux based, making use of open source tooling as much as possible.

Activities comprise the development of software that is used to convert digital geographic data to client’s internal database format dHive. Other software is developed to extract various output formats from dHive. The input data can originate from local suppliers in one country, or from global parties such as Here (former Nokia Location & Commerce, former NAVTEQ) or TomTom (former TeleAtlas) Licensing.

Responsibilities 

Designing, implementing and maintaining highly advanced software tooling which will be used to process digital geographic data of world leading data providers. The processed geographic data will be used in worldwide navigation products of market leading customers like VW, BMW and Daimler. Reports To 

Project leader (hierarchically) and SW architect (technically).

Work Description

Within the maintenance team you will be responsible for your own products, under supervision of the SW architect and project leader. Besides developing, documenting and testing your own code, reviewing the work of colleagues and problem solving also belong to your responsibilities.

Core Tasks:

•  Developing and maintaining conversion tooling.

•  Performing peer code reviews.

•  Performing developer tests on your own code.

•  Creating and updating SW documentation (e.g. wiki).

Competencies:

•  A MSc or BSc degree, preferably in computer science.

•  At least 5 years relevant working experience in software development (design and implementation).

•  Able to grasp structure of complex software tooling and understands impact of changes on existing code

•  Experienced in C++ (must)

•  Knowledge of Linux (as development environment)

•  Knowledge of SQL (strong preference)

•  Experience in creating complex SQL queries is preferred.

•  Interest/experience in algorithms

•  Experience in writing software that is optimized to run in environments with:

•  limited memory (optimize for memory usage)

•  Limited CPU cycles (optimize for speed)

Personal skills:

You are an independent, creative and pragmatic minded engineer (a “doer”) with a customer focus and strong communicative skills to interact and align on work status with your colleagues. You have perfect command of written and spoken English.