Senior iOS 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 iOS Engineer at Via, you will be part of the rider mobile team, focusing on enhancing the rider experience in all aspects, including booking riders, account management and more. The team is also responsible for managing and evolving Via's multi-platform UI/Automation testing infrastructure.

What You’ll Do:

• Collaborate closely with designers, backend engineers, and product managers in order to deliver our high-quality, user-friendly rider 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 5 years of experience with hands-on iOS app development.
• Proficiency in Swift for iOS app development.
• Strong understanding of mobile app architecture patterns (MVC, MVVM, MVP), SwiftUI and UIKit, and RESTful APIs.
• Expertise in optimizing app performance, memory management, and debugging complex issues.
• Knowledge of concurrent programming using async-await, GCD (Grand Central Dispatch) or Operation Queues to handle background tasks and async operations efficiently.
• Knowledge of iOS frameworks such as Core Location, MapKit, as well as third party frameworks such as Google Maps.
• Experience mentoring and guiding engineers within your team
• 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.
• Have an eye for detail when performing pull requests.

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: $160,000 - $200,000
• We are proud to offer a generous and comprehensive benefits package, including free medical plans and 401K matching.

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 worldclass 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.