What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior iOS Engineer position at via.com?
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.
- 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
Founded in 2012, Via pioneered the TransitTech category by using new technologies to develop public mobility systems - optimizing networks of buses, shuttles, wheelchair accessible vehicles, school buses, autonomous vehicles, and electric vehicles around the globe.
Building the world's most efficient, equitable, and sustainable transportation network for all passengers - including those with limited mobility, those without smartphones, and unbanked populations - Via works with its partners to lower the costs of public transit while providing transportation options that rival the convenience of a personal car while reducing environmental impact.
At the intersection of transportation and technology, Via is a visionary market leader that combines software innovation with sophisticated service design and operational expertise to fundamentally improve the way the world moves, providing technology in 650 communities and more than 35 countries and counting.
We are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace. If you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles. All backgrounds, identities, and voices are welcomed and celebrated at Via.
