Backend Software Engineer

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.

We are looking for a Backend Software Engineer to join our R&D office in Tel Aviv. The position is to be part of a development team responsible for Via’s application backend group. The goal of our team is to provide Via with a flexible and scalable backend to serve multiple apps and millions of users. You will work on challenging tasks such as new features, stability enhancements, security improvements, infra updates, and performance issues which have a direct impact on Via's services worldwide.

What You’ll Do:

• Design and implement scalable microservices and APIs using modern tech stacks (Python, Go) ensuring high performance and reliability for our ever growing customer base.
• Collaborate with product and frontend teams to architect solutions that handle millions of daily transactions.
• Participate in code reviews, mentor junior engineers and contribute to engineering best practices
• Drive technical decisions around service architecture, balance trade offs and manage  risk.
• Define and implement effective cloud infrastructure scaling solutions.
• Handle on-call responsibilities and lead incident response when critical production issues arise.

Who You Are:

• 4+ years of professional backend programming experience in either Python or Golang - must. 
• Experience working on complex architectures, preferably distributed systems or microservices.
• Experience leading development cycles e2e alongside product and frontend teams.
• Familiar with cloud-based serverless deployment (AWS) - advantage.
• Expensive experience with databases and SQL - advantage.
• Experience working with Kubernetes - advantage.
• Concise: you get stuff done, in a simple, elegant way.
• Fast learner: you can quickly master concepts, disciplines and methods.
• Team player with great communication skills.

Compensation and Benefits:

• Joining a global employer with over 700 mobility deployments in 40+ countries
• 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 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.