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About TomTom
TomTom is one of Europe’s fastest growing, most successful and most innovative consumer electronics companies. As a leading provider of personal navigation products and services, we focus on innovation, quality, ease of use and value. Since 1991 the company has grown substantially, and we are European market leader for personal navigation devices. Our navigation solutions are used in 20 countries with a mission to further expand our global customer base.

About our product
TomTom HOME 2.0 is a software application based on the Mozilla platform. The application helps users of TomTom products to stay up to date. It provides free content for downloading and contains an online shop for buying new products. There is also a TomTom product maintenance component to create backups, perform software updates and copy content from device to computer and much more. With all this functionality and with over 5 million downloads, TomTom HOME 2.0 is becoming one of our company’s flagship products.

Tasks & Responsibilities
You will be working in a team of talented developers and software architects. We need developers with exceptional precision and the skills to anticipate problems before they hit our over 6 million users.
Every detail and decision is important and can influence development and user experience in the future. To quickly be able to meet our user’s needs we practice SCRUM to keep our development process as flexible as possible.

If you believe you fit this environment we would like to invite you to come over for an interview. But do understand that once we hire you, your days of leaning back are over. What you gain is working with a team of great people, an environment in which you can learn fast and a competitive salary. Besides all this serious talk it is, of course, just a lot of fun to work for TomTom.

Skills of the suitable candidate

• Experience with Mozilla/XUL and the XULrunner platform
• Expert JavaScript & DOM knowledge
• Deep grasp of object-oriented & large-scale software methods, patterns and principles
• Experience with application development

• Mastery of XHTML, CSS

Additional useful skills

• Advanced XML experience
• Advanced AJAX experience
• Knowledge of E4X
• Experience with Firefox add-on development
• Working knowledge of SubVersion
• Experience with graphic design/layout
• Working knowledge of information design, web usability and navigation standards

• In depth knowledge of server side scripting technologies

*Optional Qualifications & Competencies *

• Passion for results, dedication to the organization and to successful results
• Innovative thinking, looking for new and creative ways of working, ability to analyse situations and systems in order to improve or solve issues.
• Open spirit, open mind to others and the environment, adapts easily to different circumstances.
• Strong attention to detail, accuracy
• Able to work under strict deadlines

• The position is based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and is therefore available to candidates living in The Netherlands or willing to relocate.

Additional Information

• Full time contract

• Competitive salary