Backend Engineer, Rider Account

Via is using technology to transform transportation around the world. From changing a single person’s daily commute to reducing humanity’s collective environmental footprint — we’ve got huge goals.

As a Backend Engineer at Via, you’ll work within our core R&D center as a member of our Rider Accounts 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.

What You’ll Do:

• Be responsible for implementing microservices from design to production.
• 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.
• Shape how cities move - your lines of code become millions of shared rides delivered equitably and efficiently.

Who You Are:

• Minimum of 2 years of backend development and databases experience
• Minimum of 2 years of hands-on experience in Python, C++, Ruby, Java, or C#
• Solid programming foundations: data-structures, multi-threading, OOP and design patterns
• Experience with SQL/MySQL and in low level performance optimizations, including profiling and memory analysis, is a plus
• Expertise with cloud platforms: AWS, Kubernetes is a plus
• Clear communication (written and verbal) is crucial to our success. You should be able to formulate your ideas concisely, and communicate complex information succinctly.  
• Ability to drive work forward independently in a cross-functional, geographically distributed team environment

Compensation and Benefits

• Final salary will be determined by the candidate’s experience, knowledge, and skills. Salary reflected does not include equity or variable pay, where applicable
• Salary Range: $130,000 - $170,000
• We are proud to offer a generous and comprehensive benefits package, including free medical plans and 401K matching.

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 world-class 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.