As a Senior Backend Engineer at Via, you’ll work within our core R&D center as a member of our Backend Team. You’ll design, develop, implement, maintain and troubleshoot in a cutting-edge environment. Within Via’s infrastructure, you’ll focus on building optimized, scalable and innovative designs.
- Be responsible for implementing microservices from design to production.
- Take ownership of development, maintenance, testing strategy, design discussions, and operations.
- Participate in all aspects of agile software development including design, implementation, and deployment.
- Responsible for the end-to-end lifecycle of new product features / components
- Ensuring application performance, uptime, and scale, maintaining high standards of code quality and thoughtful application design
- Research and suggest new technologies for boosting the product.
- Have an impact on product development by making important technical decisions, influencing the system architecture, development practices and more.
- 4+ years of backend development
- Hands-on experience in Python, Java, or other high-level programming languages
- Proven record of developing and scaling products that are highly available, distributed, and large scale
- Experience with AWS cloud platform - Advantage.
- Deep understanding of core programming principles, including data structures, multi-threading, object-oriented programming (OOP), and design patterns.
- A quick learner, capable of mastering new concepts, technologies, and methodologies with ease.
- A collaborative team player with excellent communication skills who thrives in a fast-paced environment.
What We Offer:
- Our product impacts millions of users around the world providing alternative transport solutions that are more: efficient and accessible, changing cities to make them greener
- Competitive compensation package which includes base salary and stock options
- Health insurance with a discount for family members
- Hybrid work and a lovely office situated in the heart of TLV, at Midtown close to the light rail and Israel Railways
- Career development and growth opportunities
- Other perks: Freefit and other sports lessons ,10bis/Cibus - you choose!, happy hours, team events, communities and many more benefits
We’re Via, and we build technology that changes the way the world moves. We’re driven by a simple mission: to create modern and efficient public transportation systems that provide far greater access to jobs, healthcare, and education. With our best in class suite of products, we make transit thrive.
Our teams of worldclass engineers, data-scientists, product managers, operations specialists, marketers, transit experts and more bring cutting-edge AI-powered software and innovative technology-enabled operations to our partners across the globe. Founded in 2012, Via builds solutions to digitize, automate, and enable data-driven decision making for entire transportation networks; fixed-route buses, microtransit, paratransit, school buses, autonomous vehicles, and more.
If you’re excited to be at the forefront of modernizing the future of transportation, are up for solving tough problems, and willing to become/already are a transit nerd, we are the place for you. Even if your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description for this role, we encourage you to apply. You may be just the right candidate for this or other opportunities.
Ready to join the ride?
Via is an equal opportunity employer.
