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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.
PS: When you apply, let us know how you heard about the position! Whispers, grapevines, middle-of-the-night Google searches? We’re dying to know.
Backend Infrastructure Developer
Montreal, Canada (open to remote candidates)
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 service level objectives. 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 site reliability engineering
- 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!
PS: When you apply, let us know how you heard about the position! Whispers, grapevines, middle-of-the-night Google searches? We’re dying to know.
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!
PS: When you apply, let us know how you heard about the position! Whispers, grapevines, middle-of-the-night Google searches? We’re dying to know.