Front-End Engineer

Energy Vault; London; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in transportation technology is seeking a Front-End Engineer to join its London team. The role focuses on developing user-facing features, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and optimizing existing tools. Ideal candidates will have proven experience with React and TypeScript, and be excited about shaping the future of transportation.

Benefits

Comprehensive health scheme offered through AXA

Competitive compensation including stock options

Hybrid working model

Weekly team lunches

Spacious office near Chancery Lane

Qualifications

• Minimum of 2+ years of professional experience.
• Strong knowledge of Typescript/Javascript required.
• Experience with map applications / gis is an advantage.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement user-facing features using React and TypeScript.
• Write clean and efficient front-end code for Via’s app.
• Collaborate with full-stack engineers and product designers.

Skills

React

Typescript

Javascript

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

BSc. Computer Science or similar

Job description

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 aFront-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

We’re Via, and we build technology that changes the way the world moves. We’re driven by a simple mission: to create modern and efficient public transportation systems that provide far greater access to jobs, healthcare, and education. With our best in class suite of products, we make transit thrive.

Our teams of world-class engineers, data-scientists, product managers, operations specialists, marketers, transit experts and more bring cutting-edge AI-powered software and innovative technology-enabled operations to our partners across the globe. Founded in 2012, Via builds solutions to digitize, automate, and enable data-driven decision making for entire transportation networks; fixed-route buses, microtransit, paratransit, school buses, autonomous vehicles, and more.

If you’re excited to be at the forefront of modernizing the future of transportation, are up for solving tough problems, and willing to become/already are a transit nerd, we are the place for you. Even if your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description for this role, we encourage you to apply. You may be just the right candidate for this or other opportunities.

Ready to join the ride?

Via is an equal opportunity employer.