R&D Manager Geovisualisation (m/f) at Berlin_Invalidenstrasse 116 (Berlin, Germany)

HERE Technologies, the Open Location Platform company, enables people, enterprises, and cities to harness the power of location. By making sense of the world through the lens of location, we empower our customers to achieve better outcomes from helping a city manage its infrastructure or an enterprise optimize its assets to delivering drivers to their destination safely. To learn more about HERE, including our new generation of cloud-based location platform services, visit http://360.here.com.  

 

We are looking for an experienced R&D Lead -Full stack to join the Geovisualization team to develop efficient and scalable technological solutions to complex problems related to analytics and visualization of geo-data. Geovisualization is an API toolkit for visualization of big geo-data on top of HERE Maps for analytics and business Insights. For more information, read here.

Responsibilities

In this position, you will:
* Lead the development of a visualization product that bridges work on databases, visualization, and analytics tools
* Work closely with product managers and engineers to design, implement, test and continually improve scalable web features and services
* Define the experience for and collaborate with internal and external developers to build solutions on top of the product
* Be a technical lead for highly scalable new systems or services
* Develop commercial grade software that is user friendly and suitable for global audience
* Lead and participate in architecture and design efforts
* Support production issues both directly and indirectly with customers
* Lead design reviews, code reviews of your work and the work of your peer engineers
* Mentor and assist other engineers in or out of your areas of ownership and expertise.
* Investigate, evaluate and present new emerging technologies

Qualifications

What are we looking for in you?
* 5+ years industry experience in a data-intensive web environments
* Experience with databases (preferably Postgresql/Postgis/Redshift). Ability to argument the choice of one.
* Experience with distributed systems and big data processing techniques
* Excellent in Python
* Strong programming skills in at least one another language, preferably JavaScript
* Knowledge of building modern front-end web-applications.
* Understanding of WebGL and modern browser limitations.
* Excellent communication skills

Experience with any of the following is a plus:
* AWS eco-system (Redshift, S3, ec2, ...)
* Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and map rendering
* Experience with modern JavaScript stack (node.js, ES6, webpack), web frameworks (Angular2, Vue), CSS
* Data visualization concepts and ideally d3.js
* Previous experience in managing small teams

 

Our culture is founded on openness, collaboration and honesty, with colleagues who are brilliant in their field, resilient and above all, strive for the best. One team, where everyone makes a difference and everyone is heard. Up for the challenge? We are looking forward to receiving your application.

 

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