Software Engineering Manager

At TomTom, we are a leading provider of location technology, building scalable platforms and products that power applications across industries. You’ll be leading a multi-disciplinary engineering team within our Search & Data unit, focused on building and shipping production-grade systems. You will guide teams in a fast-evolving space, where the emphasis is on strong software engineering fundamentals, rapid iteration, and turning complex ideas into reliable products at scale.

What you'll do

• Lead a cross-functional team of 10-15 software engineers to deliver features, improvements, and robust systems.
• Translate business objectives into clear technical direction, team priorities, and actionable roadmaps.
• Use monitoring, automation, testing, and metrics-driven decision making to improve customer experience, software quality, and developer productivity.
• Partner closely with product managers and technical leads to plan iterations, refine work packages, remove impediments, and ensure predictable delivery.
• Foster a culture of ownership, collaboration, and continuous improvement—enabling engineers to grow and perform at their best.
• Participate hands-on in technical discussions and architecture reviews when needed, supporting informed decision-making without micromanaging.
• Analyze customer requests, triage issues, and drive actionable outcomes based on their feedback.
• Work with the tech lead and your team to analyze, run, test, and demonstrate product code and functionalities.
• Promote engineering best practices across code quality, observability, security, testing, and incident response.
• Lead performance reviews, support career development, and provide valuable feedback and coaching to team members.
• Communicate effectively with stakeholders—including major automotive manufacturers—ensuring clarity on risks, trade-offs, and progress.

What you'll need

• A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• 7+ years of hands-on software development experience, including at least 5 years managing engineers.
• Experience designing or reviewing technical solution proposals and system architectures.
• A track record of delivering high-quality software on time using iterative and incremental development practices.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills for collaboration across technical and non‑technical stakeholders.
• Ability to prioritize effectively while balancing technical debt, product needs, and team capacity.
• A valid driving license and driving experience, enabling you to better understand the domain and customer needs.
• Being comfortable working at least two days from one of our offices in Amsterdam.

What we offer

A competitive compensation package, of course.

Time and resources to grow and develop, including a personal development budget and paid leave for learning days, as well as paid access to e-learning resources such as O’Reilly and LinkedIn Learning.

Time to support life outside of work, with enhanced parental leave plus paid leave to care for loved ones and volunteer in local communities.

Work flexibility, where TomTom’ers, in agreement with their manager and team, use both the office and home to focus, collaborate, learn and socialize. It’s all about getting the best out of both worlds – we ask TomTom’ers to come to the office two days a week, and the remaining three are free to be worked in either location.

Improve your home office with a setup budget and get extra support with a monthly allowance.

Enjoy options to work from your home country and abroad for a set number of days each year, to visit family and friends, or to simply explore the world we’re mapping.

Take the holidays you want with a competitive holiday plan, plus an extra day off to celebrate your birthday.

Join annual events like our Hackathon and DevDays to bring your ideas to life with talented teammates from around the world.

Become a part of our inclusive global culture and have the chance to collaborate with a diverse community – we have over 80 nationalities at TomTom!

Meet your team

We’re Search, a product unit within TomTom’s Location Technology Products technical unit. We develop our Search APIs, integrated into other TomTom products and used by TomTom Automotive and Enterprise to provide businesses with the technologies they need to build next-generation location experiences. Joining our team, you will use your ambition and expertise to solve complex problems and work with big data to positively impact lives on a global scale.

At TomTom...

You’ll help people find their way in the world.

Work with a team of 3,300+ unique, curious and passionate problem-solvers. Together, we’ll open up a world of possibilities for car manufacturers, enterprises and developers to help people understand and get closer to the world around them.