Full-stack Web Developer (Internal Tooling)

Data Infrastructure
team

Montreal, QC

Full time

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 500+ 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 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

  • Identify ways to improve our internal dashboard so our user’s transit data is as close to perfect as robotically possible

  • Befriend our transit data analysts, use their hard-won wisdom to design visualizations and automations for tidying and refining transit data

  • 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

  • Solid full-stack TypeScript experience with Next.js or similar frameworks

  • Strong grasp of CSS and HTML

  • You’re comfortable using and creating APIs with multiple sources of data

  • 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 know how to use Zod to validate and transform data

  • You can write a database query with Prisma, or without it

  • You are familiar with Google Cloud Platform and Cloud Run

  • You have Designervision™ (aka you know a pretty interface when you see one)

  • You are 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

[$70,000 - $95,000] CA per year, based on experience

  • Stock options

  • Comprehensive medical and dental coverage

  • 5 weeks vacation

  • Four-day work week at full-time salary (yes, you read that right)

  • Apple laptop

  • $1,600 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 and/or [insert exotic Zoom background]

  • When you’re in the office: you’ll be in urbanist heaven, surrounded by Mile End’s urban gardens, bike paths, BIXI docks, bus stops, a metro station, and limitless restaurants… cafés… bars… concert halls… bagel boutiques…

  • Communal lunch-and-learn with free food in the office each week


👨‍💻 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 use, 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 [email protected] 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.


📝 Responsibilities

  • Identify ways to improve our internal dashboard so our user’s transit data is as close to perfect as robotically possible

  • Befriend our transit data analysts, use their hard-won wisdom to design visualizations and automations for tidying and refining transit data

  • 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

  • Solid full-stack TypeScript experience with Next.js or similar frameworks

  • Strong grasp of CSS and HTML

  • You’re comfortable using and creating APIs with multiple sources of data

  • 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 know how to use Zod to validate and transform data

  • You can write a database query with Prisma, or without it

  • You are familiar with Google Cloud Platform and Cloud Run

  • You have Designervision™ (aka you know a pretty interface when you see one)

  • You are 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

[$70,000 - $95,000] CA per year, based on experience

  • Stock options

  • Comprehensive medical and dental coverage

  • 5 weeks vacation

  • Four-day work week at full-time salary (yes, you read that right)

  • Apple laptop

  • $1,600 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 and/or [insert exotic Zoom background]

  • When you’re in the office: you’ll be in urbanist heaven, surrounded by Mile End’s urban gardens, bike paths, BIXI docks, bus stops, a metro station, and limitless restaurants… cafés… bars… concert halls… bagel boutiques…

  • Communal lunch-and-learn with free food in the office each week


👨‍💻 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 use, 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 [email protected] 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.


📝 Responsibilities

  • Identify ways to improve our internal dashboard so our user’s transit data is as close to perfect as robotically possible

  • Befriend our transit data analysts, use their hard-won wisdom to design visualizations and automations for tidying and refining transit data

  • 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

  • Solid full-stack TypeScript experience with Next.js or similar frameworks

  • Strong grasp of CSS and HTML

  • You’re comfortable using and creating APIs with multiple sources of data

  • 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 know how to use Zod to validate and transform data

  • You can write a database query with Prisma, or without it

  • You are familiar with Google Cloud Platform and Cloud Run

  • You have Designervision™ (aka you know a pretty interface when you see one)

  • You are 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

[$70,000 - $95,000] CA per year, based on experience

  • Stock options

  • Comprehensive medical and dental coverage

  • 5 weeks vacation

  • Four-day work week at full-time salary (yes, you read that right)

  • Apple laptop

  • $1,600 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 and/or [insert exotic Zoom background]

  • When you’re in the office: you’ll be in urbanist heaven, surrounded by Mile End’s urban gardens, bike paths, BIXI docks, bus stops, a metro station, and limitless restaurants… cafés… bars… concert halls… bagel boutiques…

  • Communal lunch-and-learn with free food in the office each week


👨‍💻 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 use, 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 [email protected] 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.