Senior Software Engineer - Optimization, Remix
Role Overview
Improve our planning and scheduling products to help planners explore new concepts, make informed decisions with data, and deliver better service to their riders.
Build, scale, and improve the optimization and backend systems behind those products, and make sure they run fast and reliably in production.
Collaborate with designers, data scientists, algorithm researchers, product managers, our in-house transit planners and schedulers, and our customers.
Work with a variety of technologies across our stack for different projects, all to deliver great end-to-end user experience.
Contribute to discussions about engineering best practices and architecture within your relevant area of expertise.
Build and maintain our processes and tools, to keep our productivity and code quality high.
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About the Role
Improve our planning and scheduling products to help planners explore new concepts, make informed decisions with data, and deliver better service to their riders.
Build, scale, and improve the optimization and backend systems behind those products, and make sure they run fast and reliably in production.
Collaborate with designers, data scientists, algorithm researchers, product managers, our in-house transit planners and schedulers, and our customers.
Work with a variety of technologies across our stack for different projects, all to deliver great end-to-end user experience.
Contribute to discussions about engineering best practices and architecture within your relevant area of expertise.
Build and maintain our processes and tools, to keep our productivity and code quality high.
About You
You have at least 6 years of professional software engineering experience.
You’ve built and scaled a computationally hard system in production, such as optimization, routing, search, simulation, or geospatial processing.
Mission-driven: you’re passionate about companies with strong values and missions.
User-centric: you find value in talking to customers and addressing core customer needs.
You use AI tools effectively in your day-to-day engineering work.
Collaborative, humble, empathetic, and feedback-driven.
Experience with operations research, mathematical optimization, or applied machine learning is a plus, but not required.
Experience with geospatial data, mapping technologies, or data visualization is a plus, but not required.
Compensation and Benefits
- Final salary will be determined by the candidate’s experience, knowledge, and skills. Salary reflected does not include equity or variable pay, where applicable.
- Salary Range: $180,000-$220,000
- We are proud to offer a generous and comprehensive benefits package, including free medical plans and 401K matching.
- There has never been a more exciting time to be on the cutting edge of public mobility. Ready to join the ride?
- Via is an equal opportunity employer.
Requirements
- You have at least 6 years of professional software engineering experience.
- You’ve built and scaled a computationally hard system in production, such as optimization, routing, search, simulation, or geospatial processing.
- Mission-driven: you’re passionate about companies with strong values and missions.
- User-centric: you find value in talking to customers and addressing core customer needs.
- You use AI tools effectively in your day-to-day engineering work.
- Collaborative, humble, empathetic, and feedback-driven.
- Experience with operations research, mathematical optimization, or applied machine learning is a plus, but not required.
- Experience with geospatial data, mapping technologies, or data visualization is a plus, but not required.
About Via
TransitTech company providing software and managed public mobility services.
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