Engineer Manager

Join TomTom as a Platform Engineer - Observability Engineer Manager in the Maps Map Delivery team, where you will lead software engineering teams building and delivering digital map solutions for navigation and autonomous driving applications.

What you'll do

• Lead one or more software engineering teams (typically 4–7 engineers per team), accountable for delivery, quality, and team health.
• Own engineering execution for your team, including sprint planning, delivery tracking, and adherence to agreed engineering standards and practices.
• Review and approve requirements and technical designs, ensuring solutions are scalable, maintainable, and aligned with broader architectural direction.
• Manage dependencies, risks, and priorities across multiple teams within a larger software organization.
• Ensure operational excellence by owning production availability, service reliability, and agreed SLA outcomes.
• Collaborate with Product Management to translate product requirements into clear technical plans and delivery commitments.
• Enable professional growth by setting clear expectations, providing feedback, supporting development plans, and maintaining a sustainable team environment.
• Represent engineering perspectives in cross-team initiatives and in discussions driven by customer or partner needs.
• Contribute to hiring and onboarding activities to maintain required skills and capabilities within the team.

What you'll need

• Ability to lead software engineering teams delivering customer-facing, production-critical systems.
• Understanding of end-to-end software development lifecycles, from requirements and design through deployment and operation.
• Capability to apply engineering best practices to improve software quality, reliability, and maintainability.

Analytical & Problem-Solving Capabilities

• Ability to address complex technical and organizational problems where solutions are not predefined.
• Sound judgment in prioritizing trade-offs between scope, timeline, quality, and operational risk.
• Capability to identify, escalate, and resolve delivery or architectural risks using structured decision-making.

Technical Capabilities - this is essential

• Ability to assess and guide architectural designs and implementation choices in backend-oriented software systems.
• Capability to review production-ready code and design documentation for quality, scalability, and operational impact.
• Understanding of modern software delivery environments, including CI/CD, monitoring, and cloud-based deployments.

Communication & Collaboration Capabilities

• Ability to communicate technical and delivery topics clearly with engineers, product managers, and non-technical stakeholders.
• Capability to align multiple stakeholders around shared goals, priorities, and delivery plans.
• Ability to provide actionable feedback and guidance to support individual and team performance.

Execution & Accountability

• Demonstrated ownership of delivery outcomes for one or more teams, including timelines, quality, and reliability.
• Capability to define short- to mid-term roadmaps (e.g. 1–2 quarters) and execute against them.
• Accountability for team performance management, role clarity, and continuous improvement of ways of working.

What we offer

• A competitive compensation package.
• 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. 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.
• Additional local benefits tailored to your location.

Meet your team

We're PU Customer Onboarding & Delivery. We develop digital map solutions for navigation and autonomous driving applications. In our team, you'll strive to find the best ways to compile, publish and/or stream terabytes of map content for critical cloud services, advanced autonomous vehicles and large innovative tech companies around the world.

About TomTom

You’ll help people find their way in the world by contributing to the first-ever real-time map. Work with a team of curious and passionate problem-solvers to create possibilities for car manufacturers, enterprises and developers, helping people understand and get closer to the world around them.