Software Developer (Transit & Mobility)

Company Description

Role: Software Developer (Transit & Mobility)

Location: United States 

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets. We are more than 36,000 people, in over 70 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

We use digital intelligence and deep human knowledge to create products and solutions in a holistic way. We empower our clients with agile, data-driven insights and technologies that complement our sustainable design, engineering and advisory expertise. We can confidently work in partnership to address global challenges from climate change and rapid urbanization, to increasing digitalization, socio-economic disruption and societal expectations head-on, all with the common goal of improving quality of life.

Job Description

The Arcadis Transit & Mobility Data team is hiring a Software Developer/Designer to join their team. This position is part of a distributed team and can be remote from anywhere within the continental United States. Current team members are located in Portland OR, Atlanta GA, Seattle WA, Chicago IL, Buffalo NY, and New York NY.

The Arcadis Transit & Mobility Data team focuses on helping transit agencies manage their data, provide high-quality real-time information to passengers, analyze service quality, and measure performance. The Transit Data practice also has a special emphasis on open source software like OpenTripPlanner, open data, and open data standards like GTFS/GTFS-real-time (transit), and GBFS (micromobility).

The Transit & Mobility Data team has been working closely with many agencies to build and maintain multimodal trip planning applications built on OpenTripPlanner and tools for managing and editing open transit data (TRANSIT-data-tools). Some of our recent projects are with Portland TriMet, New York State DOT, San Francisco Bay Area MTC, the ATL in Atlanta, GA, amongst others. In this role, you can expect to:

-Contribute to the development and maintenance of open source transportation software (OpenTripPlanner-based multi modal trip planners and the GTFS management platform TRANSIT-data-tools software).

-Customize and deploy implementations of OpenTripPlanner and/or TRANSIT-data-tools (described above) to meet the needs of client transit agencies.

-Write tests to enhance the reliability of our codebase. -Develop wireframes and user interface mockups for new features.

-Work closely with product managers, development team and end users to design and architect new product features.

-Develop and maintain engaging and practical system documentation. -Identify opportunities to improve our software development process.

Qualifications

You'll need to have:

-Programming experience with a modern javascript framework (React, Angular, etc.)

-Familiarity with source control (git), software testing and knowledge of software development processes -Familiarity with Linux-based shell scripting and CLI

-A sense for design and what makes for clean and intuitive user interfaces

-Familiarity with design tools (Sketch, Adobe Xd, Figma, InVision) and desire to learn new ones

-Familiarity with and/or interest in public transit and multimodal transportation

-Curiosity to understand how systems work and identify/solve problems

-Attention to detail and ability to balance priorities and multiple projects

Willingness to both learn independently but reach out for support/guidance as needed -Interest in developing new skills and excitement for new challenges It’s a bonus if you also have:

-Familiarity with, or interest in, transit data (e.g. GTFS and GTFS-real-time formatted data) and/or open source transit software (e.g. OpenTripPlanner)

-Experience with or interest in the design and implementation of map-based user interfaces, using tools such as Leaflet, Mapbox, Carto, etc. Additional information:

We encourage candidates to submit a link to their GitHub page for software development examples, and/or portfolio of UI/UX design experience.

Salary range depending on factors such as experience and location is in the range of $90k-$120k 

Additional Information

Additional information

Why Arcadis?

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together. 
You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role,