Senior Backend 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.

As a Backend Engineer at Via, you’ll join our R&D center in Tel Aviv as part of the Infrastructure Development team. In this role, you’ll contribute to the scalability, reliability, and production quality of Via’s infrastructure and software, ensuring robust support for our ride-sharing services. You’ll also develop cloud-based tools that empower Via's dispatch operators and drivers to manage real-time shared rides at a massive scale seamlessly.

What You'll Do

• Own the design and development of scalable, reliable, and efficient systems to strengthen Via’s technological foundation and proactively address growing stability and performance demands.
• Establish infrastructure standards for dev teams at Via, with a focus on observability.
• Design, implement, and develop centralized infrastructure and data pipelines.
• Develop infrastructure libraries that power hundreds of Via’s microservices.
• Create and maintain self-service tools through a service lifecycle, including CI/CD automation, templates using GitLab, Jenkins Scripts and Terraform Modules to streamline developer workflows and empower teams to deploy with confidence.
• Develop a comprehensive understanding of Via’s applications and architecture, ensuring alignment with infrastructure goals.
• Collaborate actively as a team player, with a solution-oriented mindset and a commitment to enabling the success of the broader engineering organization.
• Bring forward innovative ideas, take ownership of project timelines and deliverables, and drive scalability efforts.

Who You Are

• BSc. in Computer Science, Mathematics or a related Software Engineering field.
• 4+ years of experience in backend / full stack development using an object-oriented programming language.
• 2+ years of experience with cloud-based deployments (Preferably AWS maintaining Infrastructure as Code).
• 2+ years of experience working with Kubernetes and containerized environments.
• Experience managing the full lifecycle of microservices in large-scale production environments, including deploying, monitoring, and maintaining operational reliability in production systems.
• Proficiency in building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, releasing and testing code.
• Designed and maintained data intensive applications is a strong plus.
• Implemented and maintained Relational / NoSQL Databases Data & DB Lifecycle
• Experience with Python and Go is a strong plus.
• Comfortable multi-tasking and working with multiple programming languages as needed for various tasks.
• A quick learner with the ability to rapidly adapt to new tools, methodologies, and workflows, staying ahead of evolving technologies and best practices.
• Team player with excellent communication skills, capable of collaborating effectively across development and operations teams.
• Skilled at simplifying complex problems and breaking them down into manageable, solvable parts.

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, 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.