R&D Team Lead

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 the R&D Team Lead, you will be responsible for leading the development of our core routing engine and overseeing its evolution. You’ll work closely with cross-functional teams to design, implement, and refine algorithms that solve complex optimization problems, ensuring that our engine performs at scale and continues to meet the dynamic needs of our users.

You will be part of a highly talented and motivated development team responsible for Via’s Routing real-time systems. This role involves leading a team of skilled engineers, ensuring the delivery of high-quality navigation solutions at scale, and contributing to the continuous improvement of our development processes.

What You’ll Do:

• Lead and manage a team of Backend engineers, overseeing the development of both end-to-end services and core infrastructure components.
• Work closely with Product & Algo teams to design and refine routing algorithms & continuously optimize algorithms to handle large-scale, real-time data efficiently.
• Develop, own, and execute the team's roadmap, ensuring alignment with the company's strategic goals.
• Oversee project objectives to enhance and support the overall product strategy.
• Play a central role in managing, coaching, and fostering the growth of your engineering team.
• Guide and mentor team members to ensure they deliver exceptional results by promoting best practices and addressing technical challenges on projects requiring advanced technical expertise.
  
  

Who You Are:

• 2+ years of experience in a technical leadership role.
• 6+ years of experience with BE software development in one or more programming languages (e.g. Python, Go, Java).
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to break down complex problems and design elegant, scalable solutions.
• Strong background in algorithms, data structures, and performance optimization.
• Experience with routing, pathfinding, and optimization algorithms
• BSc. in Computer Science / Math or equivalent - Must
• Experience with Go, React, AWS, Kubernetes - Advantage
• M.Sc./PhD Computer Science / Mathematics / Physics or similar - advantage
  
  

What We Offer:

• 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.