Engineering Manager C++

Join TomTom as an Engineering Manager C++ in the Navigation team within Platform Products.

What You’ll Do

• Lead a cross-functional team of 3–5 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, preferably in C++, including at least 1 year leading or mentoring 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 Eindhoven or Amsterdam.

Nice to Have

• Hands-on experience with Kotlin.

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.

Meet your team

We're the Navigation SDK team. We work on complex code to develop TomTom's Navigation Software Development Kit, integrating technologies provided by other Product Units and enabling our customers to easily build competitive navigation applications. Your code will also be at the heart of TomTom's navigation products like AmiGO, helping millions of people find their way in the world.

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.