Senior Java Developer with Search / Information Retrieval experience -0000001135 at HERE, a Nokia business (Berlin, Germany)

Want to work on products that hundreds of millions of people around the world use? Want to solve unique, large scale, highly complex technical problems?

HERE, a Nokia business, offers the world’s freshest maps and location experiences across multiple screens and operating systems. Formerly known as NAVTEQ and Nokia Location & Commerce, we established our new unified brand in 2012. HERE inspires a new generation of location services and devices helping more people to navigate their lives with ease and confidence every day and everywhere. Built on 30 years of experience in cartography and drawing on more than 80,000 sources of data, HERE offers “Maps for Life” for 196 countries, voice guided navigation in 95 countries, live traffic information for 41 countries, and support over 50 languages. Our maps can be found in 4 out of 5 in-car navigation systems in North America and Europe. We have powered mobile and web companies for more than 10 years. Our customers include Amazon, Yahoo, Garmin, BWM, Toyota, and many more. We are very proud of being the largest and most highly-trained team of map-makers on the planet with 6,000
people in more than 56 countries. To learn more about HERE, visit http://360.here.com

Nokia HERE is seeking an outstanding Software Engineer to join the Place Discovery team of HERE Maps. Engineers on this team design, build and optimize backend services that power HERE Maps’ search and discovery user features, personalization,  recommender systems, targeting and more.
 
The ideal candidate will have exceptional coding skills, be a self-driven and systematic worker and share a deep love for creating software products. Join us! This position is full-time and is based in Berlin (Mitte). The workplace is very international, the work language is English.
 
Responsibilities
     * Contribute production-level JAVA code to HERE Maps’ Search & Recommendations services
     * Work closely with machine learning researchers to design and implement new algorithms
     * Create tools for analyzing massive data sets
     * Work closely with operations and infrastructure to build and scale backend services
     * Work closely with our product and design teams