Senior Data 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 super-talented & motivated engineering team responsible for Via’s Mapping Data Management and will take a key role in our site in TLV. You will lead development and work 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 end-to-end development cycle of 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:

• Passionate about data, with the ability to translate business needs into effective data models.
• A self-driven learner, comfortable working independently in a complex technological environment.
• Technologically curious, capable of identifying needs, designing POCs, and implementing scalable solutions.
• Minimum of 4+ years of experience as a Data Engineer or BI developer- Must
• Minimum of 4+ years of experience with Python / SQL - Must
• Experience with DBT/ Airflow -  a big advantage
• Experience with processing data over ICBERG storage - a big advantage
• Experience working with BI tools such as Looker/ Tableau - advantage
• Experience in executing Big Data solutions and in processing Relational DBs - Advantage.
• Experience working with AWS big data tools, like: Glue, EMR, Athena,etc  - advantage
• BSc/MSc in Computer Science or equivalent

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, 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

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.