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 Software Architect, you will play a critical role in defining, maintaining, and visualizing system architecture while ensuring seamless interaction between its components. You will work closely with product managers, project managers, and business teams, translating complex technical concepts into clear, actionable insights - and vice versa. You will collaborate with and influence hundreds of engineers across multiple disciplines - backend, frontend, mobile, algorithms, and cloud infrastructure - driving architectural excellence and ensuring scalable, high-performance solutions. Your leadership will set the engineering standards for the company, driving their adoption across teams while fostering a culture of technical excellence.
What You’ll Do:
- Drive Architectural Vision - Define and maintain a scalable, high-performance system architecture that aligns with business goals and product strategy.
- Deep Dive into Systems and Codebases - Rapidly develop an in-depth understanding of the current system, allowing you to effectively guide the addition of new functionalities, solve scalability bottlenecks, and identify opportunities for improvement.
- Communicate Complex Ideas Clearly - Communicate deeply technical concepts in an understandable way for non-technical stakeholders while also translating high-level product and business goals into actionable engineering requirements, speaking "the engineers’ language."
- Set Engineering Standards - Establish best practices for software development, system design, and scalability, ensuring their adoption across teams through mentoring and collaboration.
- Collaborate Cross-Functionally - Work alongside product managers, project managers, and business teams to shape product roadmaps, balance trade-offs, and align engineering efforts with company objectives.
- Guide and Mentor Engineers - Influence and support dozens (or even hundreds) of engineers by providing architectural guidance, resolving technical roadblocks, and fostering a culture of innovation.
- Hands-On Problem Solving - Engage in critical coding tasks, build proof-of-concepts, and validate design decisions through practical implementation
Who you are:
- B.Sc Computer Science, Mathematics, or any related degree
- 8+ years of professional experience in backend or full-stack development
- Exceptional communicator - able to translate deeply technical concepts into non-technical language for stakeholders, ensuring alignment across engineering, product, and business teams.
- Proven leadership and mentoring experience, with the ability to influence teams at scale.
- All-around team player, highly independent, and proactive in driving initiatives.
- Passionate about system design, with a big-picture perspective while maintaining the ability to deep dive into details.
- Humble and low ego, focused on team success
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
If you're excited about shaping the future of transportation and want to have a significant technical and strategic impact, we’d love to hear from you!
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.
Ready to join the ride?
Via is an equal opportunity employer.
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What We Do
We build technology that changes the way the world moves. Our guiding principle is simple: the future of transportation is dynamic, shared public mobility — the kind that reduces carbon emissions across cities, compliments existing transit infrastructure, and provides equitable access to efficient, affordable ways of getting around. For everyone.
Why Work With Us
You’ll work in an established startup that’s growing at staggering speed. We have plenty of room for the most bold among us to dream it up and make it happen. You’ll be empowered to experiment, and encouraged to challenge what we’ve already done while making stuff no one’s even thought of yet.
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