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 a super-talented & motivated engineering team responsible for Via’s Data Engineering team and will take a key role in our site in TLV. You will lead development and work with complex transportation data, design streamlined systems to process data from ride bookings, payments, and more, ensuring it’s clean, fast and serves our business needs. 

What You'll Do:

• You will be responsible for scalable data, pipeline, and backend services with challenging 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

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.