Engineering Manager, C++

TomTom

Engineering Manager leading cross-functional software teams for TomTom’s Navigation Software Development Kit. Driving technical direction, prioritization, and delivery with a culture of collaboration and improvement.

Posted 5/9/2026full-timeAmsterdam • 🇳🇱 NetherlandsSeniorLeadWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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.

Requirements

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.

Benefits

Comp & perks

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.
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!

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Hard Skills & Tools

C++software developmentsystem architectureiterative developmentincremental developmentmonitoringautomationtestingcode qualityincident response

Soft Skills

leadershipcommunicationinterpersonal skillscollaborationprioritizationcoachingfeedbackownershipcontinuous improvementproblem-solving

Certifications

Bachelor’s degree in Computer ScienceBachelor’s degree in Engineering