Fullstack 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 a Fullstack 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 responsible for Via’s Driver Operations and Management system. 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 Backend and Frontend 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.

Who You Are:

• 2+ years of experience in a technical leadership role.
• 6+ years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages (e.g. Python, Go, Java, C, C++).
• 4+ years of experience with Microservices BE development in scale - Must
• 2+ years of experience with Python - Must
• Experience with Relational DBs - Must
• Experience with Go, React, AWS, Kubernetes - Advantage
• BSc. in Computer Science or equivalent - Advantage

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 equity.
• 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.

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.