Android 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 an Android Engineer at Via, you will be part of the driver mobile team, focusing on enhancing the driver experience in all aspects, including navigation, task management and more. You will work on developing and maintaining core features that directly impact driver operations. The team is also responsible for managing and evolving Via's mobile infrastructure, including backend services in an AWS environment

What You’ll Do:

• Collaborate closely with with designers, backend engineers, and product managers in order to deliver our high-quality, user-friendly driver application
• Develop, enhance, and maintain the mobile infrastructure services that power Via's mobile apps.
• Work under high-pressure situations to quickly diagnose and resolve critical production issues, ensuring minimal disruption to users.
  
  

Who You Are:

• Have 2-3 years of experience with hands-on Android development
• Proficiency in Kotlin and java for Android app development.
• In-depth understanding of the Android application lifecycle, including activity, fragment,view models and service lifecycle.
• Strong understanding of android app architecture patterns
• Expertise in optimizing app performance, memory management, and debugging complex issues.
• Knowledge of concurrent programming using Kotlin Coroutines or RxJava to handle background tasks and async operations efficiently.
• Knowledge of Android frameworks such as Location Services, Google Maps API, as well as third-party frameworks such as Mapbox.
• A strong advantage: knowledge of backend systems built on AWS and the Serverless Framework.
• A proactive, can-do attitude, with a strong eagerness to learn and adapt to new technologies.
• Inherently a team player, with a strong collaborative mindset
• We are a hybrid team so most of the team is working 2 days a week from our offices at TLV
  
  

Compensation and Benefits:

• 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.