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Product Designer
Montreal, Canada
You believe design is at the heart of the universe. That just a few milliseconds after the Big Bang finger-snapped a bazillion atoms into being…. design was born. Your friends say you’re a perfectionist. Your enemies say you’re hyper-critical. But behind every Unsolicited Design Critique™ is the desire to restore order, simplicity, and elegance into the universe. It fills you with a sense of purpose—and it’s why you love being a designer, so-so-so much.
You love the idea of working at Transit because it has a tangible impact on cities and how people get around them. Design can be so much more than prettifying pixels: it can utterly transform urban life. It can seduce people into choosing active transportation alternatives over environmentally-destructive ones. It can bring people closer together, make public space more accessible, and empower cities to thrum with the electric thrill of endless opportunity.
And that’s why we need you at Transit.
📝 Responsibilities
- Design new features, sometimes from a blank slate, sometimes to order — depending on which internal teams/external stakeholders (i.e. transit agencies) are involved
- Master the app until it feels as natural as a bicycle: be familiar with Transit’s various screens and UI elements, and understand the reasoning behind design decisions
- Improve and maintain our internal design system, so it’s ever-easier for Transit’s designers to build and ship new features
- Measure the success of your designs using analytics tools, and work with developers to keep an eye on performance. “The numbers don’t lie” — Shakira
- Be open to (but also opinionated about) features suggested by Transit users
✅ Requirements
- Strong UX and UI skills. Separating the two would be a sin. 😱
- Experience designing at least one mobile app (experience with web apps would be nice)
- Maniacal obsession for details like font sizes, margins, colours and their consistency across screens.
- Be sharp, be smart, be creative. Here, there’s no such thing as “I tried everything.”
- Be humble, listen to feedback, be open to criticism. Blame design, not the user!
- Be passionate about cities, urbanism, public transit, design, technology, and/or all of the above.
- Know who you’re designing for: while we expect you to use Transit, naturally, you won’t always use all of its features (even our most popular ones). Be conscious of these biases and know when to carry out user research.
- Speak and write the French and English good.
- Be based in Montreal or be willing to relocate to Montreal in a post-rona world (can you even imagine…)
💯 Would be nice if…
- You had experience with prototyping and user testing.
Don’t feel like all the requirements apply to you but you still think you’d be a great fit for Transit? Don’t hesitate to apply!
💰 Compensation and benefits
- Competitive salary and stock options
- Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
- 5 weeks vacation
- Apple laptop and equipment
- $1,500 annual mobility allowance. STM? BIXI? Uber? E-bike? Scooter? Going car-free is free at Transit.
- A training and development budget
- Generous maternal/paternal/parental leave policy. Gotta fill out our tandem bicycles somehow!
- Flexible work hours
- Spend your days surrounded by first-rate teammates and the best view of Montreal Zoom backgrounds in the world
👨💻 A note on diversity
Public transit is used by overwhelmingly more women and people of colour than other modes of transportation. We try to make sure the diversity of our users is reflected in the team that serves them. Because when we include people of all races, genders, sexual orientations, ages, and identities — we end up building a better app for everyone who uses Transit.
We encourage candidates of all ages, genders, origins and orientations to apply. If you’d like to specify which pronouns you’d like to be referred to, feel free to include that in your application email.
And if your lived experience has given you a unique perspective on all things transportation, mobility, accessibility, urbanism? Let us know, and we’ll make sure your application gets the attention it merits.
📬 How to apply
We’d love to hear from you. Send your resume, portfolio and other relevant info to jobs+design@transitapp.com.
Data Scientist
Montreal, Canada (open to remote candidates)
Ridership is in flux. Uncertainty about “who’s riding” is at all-time highs. Transit agencies need real-time insights to understand what’s happening in their cities — and so do the companies and academic partners that serve them.
And then there’s Transit: Where are people booking trips? Where are folks headed? What modes are they taking? Transit network planners would weep at having the data you’ll have access to. You will be tasked with teasing meaning and insight out of all that data — from O-D matrices, to survey analysis — to help our agency and operator partners deliver better service on the ground, while also protecting user privacy with swords and dragons.
If your brain is wired for cities, if organizing data gives you a dopamine rush, and if improving one of the world’s most highly-used navigation apps would make you feel like a QUEEN at the end of each day, this job is for you. You’ll be trusted to reach elegant, simple conclusions from our big black box of user data, complemented by in-app and in-person research.
📝 Responsibilities
You’ll draw insights from existing data sources, have input into the way we collect and structure our data, test all the hypotheses (okay not all the hypotheses), create forecasts with that data, and talk data with our partners. You’ll design our in-app surveys and analyze the results. Since we’re not a giant company, you’ll get to determine how we package the data that partners care about — in a way that makes the most sense, and improves service.
✅ Requirements
- You have a degree or hard-won experience in a quantitative field: stats, applied math, or econ — convince us it’s relevant. Bonus points for an advanced degree, lots of experience, and/or special projects you are legally sworn from talking about.
- Your portfolio of work shows you can make data sing in reality, not just in theory 🕺
- You’re always asking questions, and able to find something interesting in any dataset.
- SQL and noSQL queries that befuddle other mortals are, to you, mere child’s play.
- “Making sense of geospatial data is fun” — you.
- You have a facility for Python, R, other languages used in analyzing data.
- You can calculate the required sample size for statistical significance for a survey (perhaps you already have while reading this sentence…) and you can tell us why it’s not actually significant since it’s a convenience sample.
- You are an organized, analytical problem solver with strong written, oral and visual communication skills.
💯 Would be nice if…
- You have experience with data engineering, ETL.
- You can talk smack about modern machine learning techniques.
- You have experience turning out production-ready code.
- Passion for urbanism: you find cycling glamorous, you can navigate your city’s public transit system without a map, and you believe free parking should only ever exist on a Monopoly board.
- Even better: you’ve worked at a transit agency or private mobility provider, or have a degree in transportation.
Don’t feel like all the requirements apply to you but you still think you’d be a great fit for Transit? Don’t hesitate to apply!
💰 Compensation and benefits
- Competitive salary and stock options
- Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
- 5 weeks vacation
- Apple laptop and equipment
- $1,500 annual mobility allowance. STM? BIXI? Uber? E-bike? Scooter? Going car-free is free at Transit.
- A training and development budget
- Generous maternal/paternal/parental leave policy. Gotta fill out our tandem bicycles somehow!
- Flexible work hours
- Spend your days surrounded by first-rate teammates and the best view of Montreal Zoom backgrounds in the world
👨💻 A note on diversity
Public transit is used by overwhelmingly more women and people of colour than other modes of transportation. We try to make sure the diversity of our users is reflected in the team that serves them. Because when we include people of all races, genders, sexual orientations, ages, and identities — we end up building a better app for everyone who uses Transit.
We encourage candidates of all ages, genders, origins and orientations to apply. If you’d like to specify which pronouns you’d like to be referred to, feel free to include that in your application email.
And if your lived experience has given you a unique perspective on all things transportation, mobility, accessibility, urbanism? Let us know, and we’ll make sure your application gets the attention it merits.
📬 How to apply
Send your resume, a brief explanation of why you want to work for Transit, a sample of an analysis you’ve done (including the final product), and any other information you find relevant to jobs+datascience@transitapp.com.
iOS Developer
Montreal, Canada
There’s a reason you carry an iPhone in your pocket. It’s something about the iPhone look… the iPhone feel… the way you can spend thousands of hours contorting your face with the Lion Animoji, pretending you’re Mufasa. There’s also Transit: the fastest cheetah in the jungle.*
*our jungle being the wild iOS App Store.
As Transit’s newest iOS developer, you’ll be lionized as the reason millions of iPhone-wielders don’t need to own a car. You’ll help our team experiment, simplify, and perfect every aspect of the car-free commute: from our bodacious biking and subway maps, crowdsourced real-time displays, a wickedly simple step-by-step navigator, multimodal trip planner, plus secret upcoming features you’ll discover once you’re hired.
With your Objective-C superpowers, Transit will flow smoother than a Saskatchewan sunset. Here’s what you’ll be working on:
📝 Responsibilities
- Collaborate with all-star teammates to dream up Transit’s next big feature.
- Develop those features, refine existing ones, and maintain the iOS app with your tender love and care.
- Refactor and refine Transit’s architecture to make maintenance simpler to carry out, and new features more-easily integrated.
- Conspire with our design team priests to bring their vision (and yours) to pixel-plated perfection.
✅ Requirements
- You’re a self starter, adaptable and detail oriented.
- Good knowledge of Objective-C or Swift, plus the iOS Frameworks. Xcode is an old friend; the square brackets on your keyboard are palpably faded.
- Y’all can speak and write the French and English good.
💯 Would be nice if…
- Experience with C++.
- Familiarity with Git and GitHub.
- You are the maestro behind at least one superb (and ideally, published) iOS app.
- Passionate about cities, urbanism, public transit, design, technology, GIF battles on Slack.
Don’t feel like all the requirements apply to you but you still think you’d be a great fit for Transit? Don’t hesitate to apply!
💰 Compensation and benefits
- Competitive salary and stock options
- Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
- 5 weeks vacation
- Apple laptop and equipment
- $1,500 annual mobility allowance. STM? BIXI? Uber? E-bike? Scooter? Going car-free is free at Transit.
- A training and development budget
- Generous maternal/paternal/parental leave policy. Gotta fill out our tandem bicycles somehow!
- Flexible work hours
- Spend your days surrounded by first-rate teammates and the best view of Montreal Zoom backgrounds in the world
👨💻 A note on diversity
Public transit is used by overwhelmingly more women and people of colour than other modes of transportation. We try to make sure the diversity of our users is reflected in the team that serves them. Because when we include people of all races, genders, sexual orientations, ages, and identities — we end up building a better app for everyone who uses Transit.
We encourage candidates of all ages, genders, origins and orientations to apply. If you’d like to specify which pronouns you’d like to be referred to, feel free to include that in your application email.
And if your lived experience has given you a unique perspective on all things transportation, mobility, accessibility, urbanism? Let us know, and we’ll make sure your application gets the attention it merits.
📬 How to apply
We’d love to hear from you. Send your resume, GitHub account and other relevant info to jobs+ios@transitapp.com.
Full-stack Web Developer (Partner Integrations – Senior and Mid-level)
Montreal, Canada (open to remote candidates)
APIs are like opinions. Everybody’s got one. But when you manage hundreds of different mobility APIs, you don’t want a chorus of conflicting opinions. You want the nice, smooth conformity of a (checks notes) benevolent dictatorship. Whether it’s a transit agency API, or one provided by a carshare/bikeshare/scooter/ridehail operator, it’ll be your job to work with those disparate sources—however messy they might be!—find the relevant endpoints, and make sure they’re all speaking the same language: ours.
You’ll be adding deep partner integrations. Ones that let Transit riders unlock a shared bike or scooter, book a carshare vehicle, hail a ride, compare prices and ETAs between operators, and pay/sign-up for the aforementioned services. (Yes, madame! All within one app.) You’ll also help us make it less cumbersome to purchase transit tickets: we’re adding mobile ticketing for multiple transit agencies, and you’ll be that project’s overseer.
What to expect? This job is ~20% back end, ~80% front end. “Back end” is codeword for creating consistency out of chaos, making sure every rider can expect a reliable experience when they go to a different Transit city, or try a different mode. “Front end” is codeword for breathless simplicity, sweating the details to ensure Transit isn’t just one place you can procure different modes of transport — it’s your default, because we make it so dang easy.
Responsibilities
- Creating a new bikeshare, ridehail, scooter, or ticketing integration.
- Working with product designers to create web-based user experiences in the app.
- Setting up the required server-side components (proxies, vaults, etc.)
- Creating dashboards to follow performance metrics.
- Triaging, investigating bugs, fixing ones found in our current integrations.
- Improving our internal sales reporting tools.
- Working on our internal release and integration toolkits.
Requirements
- Strong TypeScript/JavaScript experience, both front end (mostly React) and back end (Node.js)
- Experience in dealing with multiple sources of data and different APIs
- Good knowledge of CSS and HTML
- Familiarity with Git and GitHub
- You’re a self starter, adaptable and detail oriented
- Conversational skills in English or French (preferably both)
Would be nice if…
- Familiarity with function as a service platforms (FAAS, like AWS Lambda) and Kubernetes
- Good visual sense (aka you know a pretty interface when you see one)
- Passionate about urbanism and transit
Don’t feel like all the requirements apply to you but you still think you’d be a great fit for Transit? Don’t hesitate to apply!
Compensation and benefits
- Competitive salary and stock options
- Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
- 5 weeks vacation
- Apple laptop and equipment
- $1,500 annual mobility allowance. STM? BIXI? Uber? E-bike? Scooter? Going car-free is free at Transit.
- A training and development budget
- Generous maternal/paternal/parental leave policy. Gotta fill out our tandem bicycles somehow!
- Flexible work hours
- Spend your days surrounded by first-rate teammates and the best view of Montreal Zoom backgrounds in the world
A note on diversity
Public transit is used by overwhelmingly more women and people of colour than other modes of transportation. We try to make sure the diversity of our users is reflected in the team that serves them. Because when we include people of all races, genders, sexual orientations, ages, and identities — we end up building a better app for everyone who uses Transit.
We encourage candidates of all ages, genders, origins and orientations to apply. If you’d like to specify which pronouns you’d like to be referred to, feel free to include that in your application email.
And if your lived experience has given you a unique perspective on all things transportation, mobility, accessibility, urbanism? Let us know, and we’ll make sure your application gets the attention it merits.
How to apply
Transit is a “let me teach you how to do that” kind of work environment. And we’re excited to have you join it. Ready to apply? Shoot us an email at jobs+fullstack-partners@transitapp.com with a quick summary of who you are and some projects you’re proud to have worked on. We look forward to meeting you!
Full-stack Web Developer (Internal Tooling)
Montreal, Canada
Beneath the shiny surface of Transit — the starburst colours of the homescreen, the feelgood quirkiness of GO crowdsourcing, the strangely omniscient trip planner— is a rich and mysterious mine of transit data. To mere mortals, it’s bits and bytes: obscure, inscrutable. But to you it tells a story: spanning 300+ cities, millions of trips each month, this-many tickets sold, that-many successful transfers, who-knows-how-many service disruptions (we do)…our data contains the story of how cities move.
As our next data hire, you’ll help us tease meaning out of that data: helping us spin up dashboards and APIs so we can better understand how our riders are using the app and moving about their cities. You’ll be joining our Neo/Morpheus/Trinity team, mastering Transit’s in-house matrix of microservices which let us deliver transit information to riders with the utmost reliability. Working with our team of data analysts, you’ll concept and build automated tools that improve the transit outcomes for hundreds of cities — and millions of riders — as soon as you git push.
But your work will not only give us a better grasp of transit behaviour (so quirky) or save our riders from ride-ruining data feed disasters. It will improve the way public transportation actually runs on the ground. Dozens of transit agencies will be relying on the metrics you capture and the dashboards you design to deliver faster, friendlier, and more efficient transit service. Thereby making public transit the preferred way to skrrrt around town for even more riders! So come on, Trinity, take the green pill 👊😎👊
📝 Responsibilities
- We have a lot of frontend services! You’ll help us maintain the microservice architecture that hosts them all
- Identify ways to improve our internal dashboard so our user’s transit data is as close to perfect as humanly robotically possible
- Befriend our transit data analysts, use their hard-won wisdom to design automated tools for tidying and refining transit data
- Whip up beautiful dashboards for our agency partners. That way, agencies can make more informed decisions on transit service changes — and more effectively implement those changes within Transit
- Write clear, commented, tested code (the kind that lets you sleep without nightmares)
- Bugs! Scourge of the earth! Ferret them out and fix ‘em when they arise
✅ Requirements
- Strong full-stack JavaScript experience (Node.js and frontend framework/library)
- Good grasp of CSS and HTML
- You’re comfortable dealing with different APIs and multiple sources of data
- You can show big data sets who’s boss
- Familiarity with Git and GitHub
- An eagerness to learn from (but also, share your learnings with!) all the lovely people on your team
💯 Would be nice if…
- You had experience working with Typescript
- You were familiar with Google Cloud Platform and Kubernetes
- You had Designervision™ (aka you know a pretty interface when you see one)
- You were passionate about cities, urbanism, public transit, design, technology. Or all the above!
Don’t feel like all the requirements apply to you but you still think you’d be a great fit for Transit? Don’t hesitate to apply!
💰 Compensation and benefits
- Competitive salary and stock options
- Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
- 5 weeks vacation
- Apple laptop and equipment
- $1,500 annual mobility allowance. STM? BIXI? Uber? E-bike? Scooter? Going car-free is free at Transit.
- A training and development budget
- Generous maternal/paternal/parental leave policy. Gotta fill out our tandem bicycles somehow!
- Flexible work hours
- Spend your days surrounded by first-rate teammates and the best view of Montreal Zoom backgrounds in the world
👨💻 A note on diversity
Public transit is used by overwhelmingly more women and people of colour than other modes of transportation. We try to make sure the diversity of our users is reflected in the team that serves them. Because when we include people of all races, genders, sexual orientations, ages, and identities — we end up building a better app for everyone who uses Transit.
We encourage candidates of all ages, genders, origins and orientations to apply. If you’d like to specify which pronouns you’d like to be referred to, feel free to include that in your application email.
And if your lived experience has given you a unique perspective on all things transportation, mobility, accessibility, urbanism? Let us know, and we’ll make sure your application gets the attention it merits.
📬 How to apply
Transit is a “let me teach you how to do that” kind of work environment. And we’re excited to have you join it. Ready to apply? Shoot us an email at jobs+data@transitapp.com with a quick summary of who you are and some projects you’re proud to have worked on. We look forward to meeting you!
Backend Infrastructure Developer
Montreal, Canada
Picture your future self: you are the Mozart of microservices. Take away the conductor’s wand and replace it with the clackity-clack of a mechanical keyboard — you’ll help us refactor kludgy services into elegant symphonies, identify sources of high latency before they throw our users into fits of pique, and steer Kubernetes clusters with the calm hand of a maestro.
You’re passionate about software and infrastructure. Thinking about the lifecycle of microservices and how to make them more resilient is what gets you out of bed in the morning. You love running tests, automating tasks, reducing errors, ensuring that Transit (and its myriad microservices) enjoy more uptime than a giraffe that sleeps standing up.
Most importantly, you’ll help us scale our services to help millions of commuters. Your work will not only leave a lasting impact on Transit’s infra and our users’ happiness — the efficiencies you unlock will displace millions of car trips, curb CO2 emissions, and make 300+ cities more vibrant places to live.
Sound like your jam? Then we need you at Transit!
📝 Responsibilities
- Design, build and manage the infrastructure we need to keep growing.
- Update existing services to make them more resilient, easier to test, easier to deploy.
- Work alongside Transit’s other development teams to improve visibility on our infrastructure and services.
✅ Requirements
- Mastery of Kubernetes and Docker
- Ability to develop tools and services in mainstream programming languages
- Knowledge of the usual suspects in the backend ecosystem (API servers, databases, CDNs, etc.)
- Interested in monitoring and alerting systems
- Conversational skills in English (and ideally, Français)
💯 Would be nice if…
- You’re passionate about urbanism and transit!
- You’ve got a strong command of networking optimization.
- You have experience with Google Cloud Platform’s buffet of managed services.
- You have serial-sly strong opinions on serialization.
Don’t feel like all the requirements apply to you but you still think you’d be a great fit for Transit? Don’t hesitate to apply!
💰 Compensation and benefits
- Competitive salary and stock options
- Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
- 5 weeks vacation
- Apple laptop and equipment
- $1,500 annual mobility allowance. STM? BIXI? Uber? E-bike? Scooter? Going car-free is free at Transit.
- A training and development budget
- Generous maternal/paternal/parental leave policy. Gotta fill out our tandem bicycles somehow!
- Flexible work hours
- Spend your days surrounded by first-rate teammates and the best view of Montreal Zoom backgrounds in the world
👨💻 A note on diversity
Public transit is used by overwhelmingly more women and people of colour than other modes of transportation. We try to make sure the diversity of our users is reflected in the team that serves them. Because when we include people of all races, genders, sexual orientations, ages, and identities — we end up building a better app for everyone who uses Transit.
We encourage candidates of all ages, genders, origins and orientations to apply. If you’d like to specify which pronouns you’d like to be referred to, feel free to include that in your application email.
And if your lived experience has given you a unique perspective on all things transportation, mobility, accessibility, urbanism? Let us know, and we’ll make sure your application gets the attention it merits.
📬 How to apply
Shoot us an email at jobs+infra@transitapp.com with a CV, quick summary of who you are and why you’re interested in working at Transit, a link to your GitHub, and some projects you’re proud to have worked on. We look forward to meeting you!