Frontend 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 Front-End Engineer at Via, you’ll be an integral part of our London team, driving the development of user-facing features that directly impact our products and customers. You’ll collaborate closely with product managers, designers, and other engineers to build and enhance front-end tools that elevate the experience for users, delivering innovative and high-performing solutions. Your work will focus on creating seamless, intuitive interfaces from scratch and continuously optimizing existing features to improve usability and drive product success. Join us to shape the future of our platform, making a tangible difference in the way we serve our users.

What You’ll Do:

• Design and implement user-facing features by building new components, pages, and modals using React and TypeScript.
• Integrate the latest third-party libraries to ensure scalability, maintainability, and performance, while adhering to best practices.
• Write clean and efficient front-end code for Via’s app, used by 600+ partners across the world to enable efficient, equitable and affordable transportation for everyone – elderly citizens, people with disabilities, school children and commuters
• Collaborate with talented full-stack and back-end engineers, product designers and product managers to create user-centric and visually appealing products
• Stay up to date with new technology trends, applications, and protocols

Who You Are:

• BSc. Computer Science or similar.
• Minimum of 2+ years of professional experience - Must.
• Experience with React - Must.
• Strong knowledge of Typescript/Javascript - Must.
• Experience working in cross-functional teams
• Experience with map applications / gis related is an advantage.

Compensation and Benefits

What We Offer:

• Joining a global employer with over 600 mobility deployments in 35+ countries
• Becoming part of a company that was awarded for its commitment to social good
• Competitive compensation including stock options
• A hybrid working model and a spacious office near Chancery Lane, where you can enjoy weekly team lunches
• Comprehensive health scheme offered through AXA

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.

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.