Job Details
Journey Planning Developer
Zipabout
Expires in 2 days
Overview
We enable people to move easily and safely around our world. Zipabout is designing the future of transport where each journey is personalised. We partner with transport leaders, government and event organisations to provide a better, safer personalised journey experience for all.
Work from Home
Leamington Spa, CV32 4JG.
This role can be worked remotely from the UK or another European country. Some travel to the UK may be required.
Key information
Multi modal routing and real time transport data are at the heart of everything we do, and we use a wide range of open source and proprietary systems to power our unique real time messaging platform for transport operators. We are looking for a talented individual to join our leading edge team of engineers and developers, focusing on the customisation and extension of our core multi modal routing platform (OpenTripPlanner).
About the role
- Working closely with the tech director and senior developers to help extend and customise our OpenTripPlanner (OTP) based multi modal routing platform.
- Liaising with our product team to identify and specify existing and future functionality for the core routing platform, and liaise with the OpenTripPlanner (OTP) community to align development with the wider project roadmap.
- Developing unit and integration tests to and help create complex systems to help validate and improve data and routing quality.
- Contributing to the clear documentation of new processes and improvements to existing documentation.
For the full job description, including the keys areas of responsibilities and accountabilities, please click the 'apply now' button.
To help with our diversity efforts, we believe in fighting unconscious bias. We have decided to anonymise all curriculum vitae that we receive. No name, no picture, no nationality or sex, no university or hobbies, no age or references. When your curriculum vitae is being assessed by our team we only ever consider one thing: your skills. Once you have been shortlisted, we will share everything we can about you with our interview panel, and we will want to speak to you as soon as possible to know everything that is not on your curriculum vitae, the rest of you.
Requirements
- Direct experience of working with OpenTripPlanner or similar open source or closed source multi modal routing engines.
- Solid knowledge of Java or Scala.
- Working experience with Amazon Web Services will also be beneficial.
- Experience with source control (Git preferred), continuous integration, and unit and or integration testing and issue management software ideally using Jira.
For the full person specification, please click the 'apply now' button.
Disclaimer: We will be interviewing for this role as suitable applications are received and may close this role before the closing date upon a successful candidate being appointed.