Engineering Team Lead

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 Engineering Team Lead at Via, you’ll join an energetic and dynamic team, taking on a pivotal role in driving our innovative projects forward. You will be part of a highly talented and motivated development team. This role involves leading a team of skilled engineers, ensuring the delivery of high-quality software solutions, and contributing to the continuous improvement of our development processes.

What You’ll Do:

• Lead and manage a team of excellent Backend engineers, overseeing the development of both end-to-end services and core infrastructure components.
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams within Via, to ensure seamless project execution.
• Develop, own, and execute the team's roadmap, ensuring alignment with the company's strategic goals. 
• Oversee project objectives to enhance and support the overall product strategy.
• Play a central role in managing, coaching, and fostering the growth of your engineering team.
• Guide and mentor team members to ensure they deliver exceptional results by promoting best practices and addressing technical challenges on projects requiring advanced technical expertise.
• Ensure application performance, uptime, and scale, maintaining high standards of code quality and thoughtful application design

Who You Are:

• Minimum of 2 years in a technical leadership role.
• Minimum of 6 years of hands-on experience in Python, Java, or other high-level programming languages
• Minimum of 6 years of backend development and databases experience
• Proven record of developing and scaling products that are highly available, distributed, and large scale
• 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
• Experience with cloud platforms

What We Offer:

• Joining a global employer with over 600 mobility deployments in 35+ countries
• Becoming part of a company that was awarded for its commitment to social good:
• Competitive compensation including stock options
• A hybrid working model and a spacious office near Chancery Lane, where you can enjoy weekly team lunches
• Comprehensive health scheme offered through AXA

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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