Lead Software Engineer

What's the role?

About HERE Tour Planning:

Join us in tackling one of the most fascinating challenges in logistics: the Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP).

HERE Tour Planning enables efficient multi-vehicle route optimization, helping businesses plan smarter and faster delivery tours.

We use precise map data, real-time traffic, road restrictions, and driver preferences to create practical, reliable routes. Our goal is to simplify complex logistics, cut travel time, lower costs, and improve delivery operations.

Beyond optimization, our system accounts for key constraints like time windows, vehicle capacity, compliance rules, and driver preferences—ensuring plans are both efficient and realistic. The result: cost savings, better delivery accuracy, and improved driver experience.

If you're driven to solve real-world challenges with smart algorithms and scalable solutions, we’d love to have you on board.

Learn more about the product here: HERE Tour Planning | Fleet Management | Solutions | HERE

About the team:

We are a diverse, passionate team of experts dedicated to solving complex logistics challenges and delivering impactful solutions. Committed to quality and innovation, we collaborate to shape the future of logistics while continuously growing our skills.

Our tech stack includes Rust, Python, Postgres, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, and Terraform - empowering us to build scalable, high-performance systems.

As a key team member, you’ll advocate for our customers, define quality standards, and help deliver solutions that truly make a difference.

Role:

As a Backend Developer, you’ll play a key role in leveraging HERE map content to extract and curate data that enhances logistics operations and enables practical, driver-friendly tours. Your work will directly impact the Tour Planning service, providing valuable geospatial insights such as traffic patterns, road attributes, restrictions, and POIs (e.g., parking, break locations, EV chargers, fuel stations). This data will be processed, structured, and exposed through REST APIs, powering our routing and optimization services.

With a strong focus on location-based technologies and clustering algorithms, you’ll develop high-performance, scalable solutions in a Rust-based codebase. Python will serve as your prototyping and experimentation tool, allowing you to test and refine innovative ideas.

This is an individual contributor role (not a team leader).

Key Responsibilities:

• Extract, process, and curate geospatial data from HERE maps to create valuable datasets for logistics optimization.

• Develop and maintain backend services that expose map-based insights (traffic, road attributes, POIs, and restrictions) via REST APIs.

• Design and optimize clustering algorithms to structure and process large-scale map data efficiently.

• Implement scalable and high-performance solutions in Rust, ensuring reliability and maintainability.

• Solve complex geospatial and routing challenges, improving logistics and driver operations efficiency.

• Manage relational (PostgreSQL) databases, ensuring optimized data storage and retrieval.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including Tour Planning, architects, and product teams, to integrate map-driven insights into logistics workflows.

• Leverage cloud platforms like AWS to deploy, manage, and optimize backend services.

Who are you?

Key Qualifications:

• 8 years of backend development experience, delivering scalable, data-driven solutions.
• Proficiency in Rust (or strong C /Scala developers who are willing to learn Rust) focusing on performant and extensible code.
• Experience with PostgreSQL, particularly in handling large-scale datasets and optimizing queries.
• Solid understanding of algorithms, data structures, and system design, preferably for geospatial data processing.
• Experience developing REST APIs and working in microservice architectures.

Good to have:

• Familiarity with Python for prototyping, data processing, or research-oriented tasks.
• Experience working with vehicle routing problems, logistics applications, geospatial data, clustering techniques, or location-based technologies.
• A background in integer programming, combinatorial optimization, mathematical modeling is a strong advantage.
• Knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS preferred), containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and CI/CD pipelines.

What Do We Offer?

• Work on the development of high-scale services, managing thousands of data processing pipelines

• Innovative and modern technologies

• Truly international team of fantastic & talented people from 60 countries worldwide, working from strong tech hubs located in Europe, the US, and Asia, along with multiple smaller locations

• Flexible working hours & a flexible approach to office vs. remote work

• Medical coverage for you and your family

• Yearly variable bonus

• This role is eligible for the Creative Tax Incentive scheme in Poland (KUP – Autorskie Koszty Uzyskania Przychodu)

• Option to work on a B2B contract (please note: benefits, bonus and KUP do not apply in this case)

Our culture is built on the principles of openness, collaboration, and honesty. We're a team of brilliant individuals, each excelling in their field, demonstrating resilience, and, above all, striving for excellence. We function as one cohesive unit, where every team member contributes to our success, and every voice is valued.If you are passionate about innovative software development, eager to shape the future of transport and logistics, and possess the skills and knowledge we're looking for, we encourage you to make HERE your destination. We are just getting started.

Change is HERE. Apply Now!

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 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.

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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. Learn more about us on our YouTube Channel.