SeniorBackendEngineer-RoutingData

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 Backend Engineer in the Routing team, you will be responsible for designing, building, and scaling the backend systems that power Via’s core products. You’ll work on high-impact, distributed services that manage geospatial data, large-scale databases, real-time events, and mission-critical workflows used across multiple teams and regions. Your work will directly influence system reliability, performance, and developer productivity at scale. You will collaborate closely with Product, Infrastructure, Data, and other engineering teams to define system boundaries, evolve shared services, and ensure our backend platform can support rapid product growth. You will be part of a highly skilled and motivated engineering group responsible for building robust, scalable, and maintainable backend systems that operate in real time and at high load. What You’ll Do: Design, build, and scale backend systems and data pipelines that power Via’s GIS and mapping platform, from initial design through production deployment and long-term ownership. Own features end-to-end with strong accountability, including design, implementation, testing, deployment, monitoring, and ongoing maintenance. Develop and maintain Python-based data pipelines that ingest, process, and transform large-scale OpenStreetMap (OSM) and other geospatial datasets. Model, store, and query complex geospatial data using PostgreSQL and PostGIS, including road topology, zones, polygons, points, and other business-critical spatial entities. Optimize database schemas, spatial indexes, and queries to efficiently handle large datasets and high-throughput workloads. Build and maintain backend services and APIs that expose geospatial and mapping data to other backend services, frontend applications, and data consumers. Colla