Software Engineer Applications & GIS

Title: Software Engineer – Applications & GIS
Location: 2 Broadway - MTA Headquarters (***Hybrid Role (3 days Onsite)***
Duration: 3 months (37.50 hrs./week)

Abilities, technical skills and domain knowledge
Abilities
• Must be intellectually curious and passionate about technology
• Ability to collect and analyze data effectively
• Ability to work independently
• Must possess excellent planning and analytical skills, superior communication skills

Technical skills
• Must possess basic knowledge of our platforms and systems: EC2, Elastic Beanstalk, CloudWatch, Docker, ActiveMQ, RDS/Postgres, Firebase and Sentry.
• Must possess knowledge of languages including Java, Kotlin and SQL. Optionally React, HTML/CSS and JavaScript, as well, for frontend work.
• Knowledge of React Native and Kotlin is desired but not required.
• Knowledge of our SaaS providers is desired but not required: GitHub, GitLab, Sentry, Intercom, Airtable, Expo.

Domain knowledge
• Prior working knowledge of railroad operations.
• Prior working knowledge of GIS or location-based data and systems (including Mapbox and ESRI).

Experience and education
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field is required. Demonstrated equivalent experience and education may be considered in lieu of the degree, subject to approval.
• Prior experience designing customer-facing applications.
• Must possess prior experience running projects, writing technical documents including scopes of work, software requirements, and estimates.