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 an Android Engineer at Via, you will be part of the driver mobile team, focusing on enhancing the driver experience in all aspects, including navigation, task management and more. You will work on developing and maintaining core features that directly impact driver operations. The team is also responsible for managing and evolving Via's mobile infrastructure, including backend services in an AWS environment
What You’ll Do:
- Collaborate closely with with designers, backend engineers, and product managers in order to deliver our high-quality, user-friendly driver application
- Develop, enhance, and maintain the mobile infrastructure services that power Via's mobile apps.
- Work under high-pressure situations to quickly diagnose and resolve critical production issues, ensuring minimal disruption to users.
Who You Are:
- Have 2-3 years of experience with hands-on Android development
- Proficiency in Kotlin and java for Android app development.
- In-depth understanding of the Android application lifecycle, including activity, fragment,view models and service lifecycle.
- Strong understanding of android app architecture patterns
- Expertise in optimizing app performance, memory management, and debugging complex issues.
- Knowledge of concurrent programming using Kotlin Coroutines or RxJava to handle background tasks and async operations efficiently.
- Knowledge of Android frameworks such as Location Services, Google Maps API, as well as third-party frameworks such as Mapbox.
- A strong advantage: knowledge of backend systems built on AWS and the Serverless Framework.
- A proactive, can-do attitude, with a strong eagerness to learn and adapt to new technologies.
- Inherently a team player, with a strong collaborative mindset
- We are a hybrid team so most of the team is working 2 days a week from our offices at TLV
Compensation and Benefits
- 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, in Midtown, close to the light rail and train station
- 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
Founded in 2012, Via pioneered the TransitTech category by using new technologies to develop public mobility systems — optimizing networks of buses, shuttles, wheelchair accessible vehicles, school buses, autonomous vehicles, and electric vehicles around the globe.
Building the world's most efficient, equitable, and sustainable transportation network for all passengers — including those with limited mobility, those without smartphones, and unbanked populations — Via works with its partners to lower the costs of public transit while providing transportation options that rival the convenience of a personal car while reducing environmental impact.
At the intersection of transportation and technology, Via is a visionary market leader that combines software innovation with sophisticated service design and operational expertise to fundamentally improve the way the world moves, providing technology in 650 communities and more than 35 countries and counting.
We are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace. If you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles. All backgrounds, identities, and voices are welcomed and celebrated at Via.
Ready to join the ride?
Via is an equal opportunity employer.
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What We Do
We build technology that changes the way the world moves. Our guiding principle is simple: the future of transportation is dynamic, shared public mobility — the kind that reduces carbon emissions across cities, compliments existing transit infrastructure, and provides equitable access to efficient, affordable ways of getting around. For everyone.
Why Work With Us
You’ll work in an established startup that’s growing at staggering speed. We have plenty of room for the most bold among us to dream it up and make it happen. You’ll be empowered to experiment, and encouraged to challenge what we’ve already done while making stuff no one’s even thought of yet.
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