Engineer Manager

Eindhoven, The Netherlands

Maps – Maps Map Delivery /

Employee, Full Time /

Hybrid

As an Engineering Manager in PU Customer Onboarding & Delivery, you enable teams to deliver reliable, scalable software solutions that support TomTom’s RoadCheck Live product and its role in Autonomous Driving. The role exists to ensure high engineering quality, sustainable team performance, and dependable product delivery while supporting a major transition toward next‑generation maps.
This position creates impact by aligning people, technology, and delivery outcomes to meet product, customer, and operational requirements.

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:

Functional & Domain Capabilities

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.

At TomTom, roles are evaluated and rewarded based on clear responsibilities, skills, and impact. This Engineering Manager position is designed to enable transparent pay setting, fair comparisons across roles, and consistent assessment for internal growth and mobility. If your skills align with leading teams, delivering high‑quality software, and driving reliable outcomes at scale, we invite you to apply and contribute to shaping the future of autonomous driving solutions.

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.

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!

Find out more about our global benefits and enjoy 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.

At TomTom...

You’ll help people find their way in the world. In 2004, TomTom revolutionized how the world moves with the introduction of the first portable navigation device. Now, we intend to do it again by engineering the first-ever real-time map, the smartest and most useful map on the planet.

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.

After you apply

Our recruitment team will work hard to give you a meaningful experience throughout your journey with us, no matter the outcome. Your application will be screened closely and you can rest assured that all follow-up actions will be thorough, from assessments and interviews all the way through onboarding. To find out more about our application process, check out our hiring FAQs.

TomTom is an equal opportunity employer

TomTom is where you can find your place in the world. Every day we welcome, nurture and celebrate differences. Why? Because your uniqueness is what makes you, you. No matter your culture or background, you’ll find your impact at TomTom. Research also shows that sometimes women and underrepresented communities can be hesitant to apply for positions unless they believe they meet 100% of the criteria. If you can relate to this, please know that we’d love to hear from you.

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.

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