Software Engineer (Remote - Contractor)

Description

The company builds fare collection platforms that let riders buy and show tickets for public transport on their phones, at a ticket machine, or by tapping a bank card.

Its Justride platform is used in over 250 locations worldwide, including some of the largest cities. Partners include Uber, Moovit and Transit, and the company offers an industry-first mobile ticketing SDK.

The team is a mix of people from many backgrounds, and career paths here are flexible. Support is offered whatever route you have taken.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain backend services and APIs behind core parts of the Justride platform
• Help design distributed systems that scale and stay secure and resilient
• Work with cross-functional colleagues to take features from concept to production
• Write clean, well-tested, maintainable code, and take part in code reviews and shared engineering standards
• Build and support integrations with internal services and third-party systems
• Improve the performance, reliability and observability of the services you own
• Join technical discussions and help shape solutions and best practices
• Own your work and help the team reach its goals

Requirements

• Clear, confident written and spoken English
• Commercial experience building backend systems in Java or Kotlin
• Understanding of distributed systems, including building for scale and reliability
• Experience designing and working with REST APIs and service-based or event-driven architectures
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms, ideally AWS
• A careful approach to code quality, testing and maintainability
• Willingness to share knowledge, learn from others and work as part of a team
• Strong problem-solving skills and a proactive attitude
• Ability to explain technical ideas to both technical and non-technical colleagues
• Not every requirement needs to be met. Curiosity, a desire to learn and a readiness to take ownership matter most.
• Nice to have: Java or Kotlin experience is optional
• Stack: event-driven architecture, RESTful APIs, AWS (DynamoDB, S3, SQS, EC2, ECS etc.), Kafka, Terraform, Grafana, Gradle, Maven, Git

Conditions

Fully remote contract role open only to people based in Romania

The company welcomes applications from underrepresented groups, including disabled and neurodivergent people, and will make adjustments at any stage of the hiring process

Benefits

• Hands-on experience with event-driven architecture, Kafka, AWS and infrastructure as code
• Exposure to how a global fare payment platform runs at scale for transit agencies and millions of riders
• Experience of delivering in an international, cross-functional team where developers help set technical direction