Senior Data-BE 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 Senior Data Engineer at Via, you’ll join an energetic team and take a key role in our site in TLV. The position is to be part of a super-talented & motivated Development team responsible for Via’s Mapping Data Management team. You will be leading development and working with a huge amount of geographic data to serve, highly complex and mapping data: Spatial, Topology, and Graph data.

What You’ll Do:

• You will be responsible for scalable data, pipeline, and backend services with challenging geographic data algorithms.
• Participate in the development cycle end-to-end – architecture, design, development, QA, deployment, and monitoring.
• Work with talented engineers, and a broad forum of experts and stakeholders to create a stable and scalable product.
• Build highly scalable, efficient, and available data pipelines/solutions, serving our data across the organization and to stakeholders.
• Monitor data quality, proactively correcting discrepancies ensuring data reliability & accuracy.

Who You Are:

• Minimum of 4+ years of experience as a Backend/Data Engineer - Must.
• Minimum of 4+ years of experience with Microservices BE development in scale - Must.
• Minimum of 2+ years of experience with Python \SQL - Must.
• Experience in working with cloud providers (AWS/GCP/Azure)  - Must.
• Experience with Serverless and Kubernetes - Must.
• Experience in executing Big Data solutions and in processing Relational DBs - Advantage.
• An independent, self-learner who is passionate about data, understands business processes, and can translate business needs into data models.
• Have a passion for technology, identify needs, design POC and implement result solutions.
• Work with a complex technological environment.
• Experience with PostGIS - a big advantage.
• BSc/MSc in Computer Science or equivalent.

We’re Via, and we build technology that changes the way the world moves. We pioneered the TransitTech category to ensure that the future of transportation is shared, dynamic public mobility — the kind that reduces carbon emissions across congested cities, minimizes reliance on private cars, and provides everyone with accessible, efficient, and affordable ways of getting around. 

We created the first end-to-end TransitTech solution for cities and transit agencies, offering world-class software, service design, and operational expertise to fundamentally improve the way the world moves.

Via was founded with the guiding principle that we go further when we go together. 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 anyways. 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.