Systems Engineer (Remote - Contractor)
Job description
Systems Engineer role at Masabi connecting the Justride fare collection platform to physical devices such as validators, faregates, fareboxes, point of sale terminals and onboard vehicle systems. It is a fully remote contract role for people based in India, working a shifted pattern to align with UK working hours.
At a glance
- Employment
- Contract · Independent contractor
- Work mode
- Remote · India
- Languages
- English – fluent
What you'll do
- Integrate and maintain Justride SDKs on embedded and hardware-enabled devices, including fare media validation, NFC and contactless EMV tap handling, and barcode payloads
- Build and maintain features in the Android point of sale app, including integration with card readers, NFC readers and printers
- Build and maintain on-device services and integration proxies that connect to onboard vehicle systems such as GPS and AVL
- Contribute to cloud services that support devices, such as remote configuration and software updates
- Write clean, well-tested code and contribute to code reviews, CI pipelines, infrastructure as code, monitoring and releases for the components you work on
- Troubleshoot issues across devices and the cloud using logs, metrics and lab hardware
- Take part in feature refinement and technical discussions, and help shape solutions
- Take ownership of your work and support team outcomes
What we're looking for
- Clear, confident communication in written and spoken English
- 2 or more years of commercial software engineering experience
- Solid programming skills in at least one language, and happy to pick up others
- Comfortable working across the stack, from cloud services down to device-level concerns
- Experience building or running services on AWS or another major cloud platform
- A solid grounding in testing (unit, integration and contract tests), Git workflows, CI/CD and Docker
- Able to work through ambiguous problems and ask for help when needed
- Collaborative and team-oriented, happy to share knowledge and learn from others
Nice to have
- Experience with Java/Kotlin, Go or C
- Android development experience
- Embedded Linux experience (Yocto, systemd, cross-compilation)
- Familiarity with NFC, smartcards or EMV contactless
- Experience with Terraform/Terragrunt, gRPC and Protobuf
- Experience in security-sensitive environments (PCI, key management) or with hardware-in-the-loop testing
- Knowledge of transit, ticketing or IoT device fleets
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About Masabi
We're driving the fare payment revolution, powering the journeys of millions all over the world.
Masabi builds fare collection platforms that allow riders to seamlessly buy and present tickets for public transport either on their mobile phones, from a ticket machine, or even by tapping their bank card to travel.
Mission
To make transit fair and accessible for all; simplify journeys, remove barriers, and improve daily life for millions.
Key facts
- Fare collection / public transport technology
- Justride platform is used in over 250 locations globally, including some of the largest cities in the world
- Industry-first mobile ticketing SDK
- Partnered with large players in the transport space, including Uber, Moovit and Transit
Partners & customers
What they value
- Driven by Purpose
- Encouraged to Accelerate
- Advancing with Empathy
- Openness and trust
- Culture of learning, not blame