About the role
Join TomTom’s map-making platform team in Łódź as a Software Engineering Intern. You’ll make our map-data quality checks faster and more reliable with Java, performance analysis and AI coding tools, and take part in daily platform engineering work. Hybrid, starting February 2027, 6 months.
What you'll do:
Join the team that runs the platform behind TomTom’s map-making, and take part in daily platform work Make our map-data quality checks faster and more reliable: profile slow rules, improve queries and logic, and show that quality stays the same Use logs, metrics and dashboards as your first step when investigating issues, and add that context to tickets Work inside our CI/CD pipelines: run builds, find which stage failed and fix simple pipeline or configuration issues Write clean, tested Java code with JUnit unit tests, and learn from code reviews Measure before and after: collect run times and failure counts and share the results in simple tables or charts Use AI coding agents and MCP tools to speed up your coding, analysis and documentation
What you'll need:
Must-have:
Currently studying Computer Science, Software Engineering or a related field Programming skills in at least one language, ideally Java A good grasp of basic data structures and algorithms Basic SQL and an understanding of relational databases Familiarity with Git and basic testing concepts (unit, functional and regression testing) Hands-on use of AI tools for coding or research, and the habit of checking what they produce Good English, curiosity and openness to feedback
Nice-to-have:
Spring Boot, Maven or JUnit experience Exposure to CI/CD, Docker or Kubernetes, or a cloud platform such as AWS Experience with an AI coding agent in your IDE or CLI, or with MCP clients Python for scripting Interest in maps, geospatial data or performance tuning
What you can expect:
* Real work on a production platform with clear, measurable goals * A dedicated mentor and regular code reviews from experienced engineers * Team knowledge-sharing sessions and hands-on learning in Java, cloud, CI/CD and AI tooling * Hybrid work from our Łódź office