Posted: 6th December, 2024

Overview

• 50k a year – Full-time, Permanent
• Company pension
• Cycle to work scheme
• Health & wellbeing programme
• Flexible working arrangements
• Sick pay
• Company events

About Us

uTrack, an innovative company serving top FTSE companies globally, is expanding its award-winning team with a core vision: creating a platform that elevates a passengers’ public transport experience and empowers clients with real-time business intelligence to transform their business.

Our amazing team is made up of individuals from all areas of the world, ethnicities, genders and beliefs, and we are committed to providing a positive workplace where everyone feels empowered to bring their whole self to work.

Role Summary

Our data investigation team are responsible for solving the mysteries of the universe, one bus service at a time.

As a transport engineer on the team, you’ll need to be half Sherlock Holmes and half Alan Turing, digging deep into hundreds of data sources to ensure that we have the most accurate and detailed picture of our clients’ transport networks possible. You’ll be passionate about all things transport and navigation, with a detail-oriented mind that picks up on patterns and nuances that everybody else has missed.

The data you produce is what powers our Origin platform, which runs some of the largest bus and coach networks in the world. Your work will directly benefit millions of people on a day-to-day basis, helping to ensure that bus and coach services across the world are running smoothly, and providing passengers with the most accurate information possible about their journeys.

Responsibilities

On a typical day you might:

• Investigate inaccurate ETAs at a bus stop in Belfast
• Add live weather information for hurricanes in Florida
• Solve inaccurate timetables due to Daylight Saving in Tasmania
• Develop a system for tracking the on-board temperatures of inter-city coaches in England
• Help a bus network in Texas improve their timetables
• Speak with clients, develop relationships, and help them understand the deepest nuances of their networks

Requirements:

• A genuine interest in public transport: everyone on the team has a favourite bus route and knows obscure trivia about the London Underground – we’d like you to as well!
• A detail-oriented mind that will see patterns and nuances that everybody else has missed: you’ll need to become an expert in the data that you maintain, and understand it better than anyone else
• Experience dealing with large data sets and a willingness to get your hands dirty, with a flair for outside-the-box solutions to difficult data problems
• Hands-on technical skills: we don’t expect you to be a senior programmer, but you need to be able to program, and have a willingness to develop your technical abilities further
• A flexible and self-motivated approach to working: transport isn’t 9-5 so we can’t always be 9-5 either – we’ll give you lots of flexibility in how you work if you’ll be flexible with us in return

Nice to have:

• Specific programming experience in Bash, PHP, or C(++)
• Day-to-day experience of using Linux and a general knowledge of using the command line to get things done
• A familiarity with MySQL-style databases
• Basic knowledge of version control systems
• Great written and verbal communication skills
• A background in the world of transport, whether professional or hobbyist, and an understanding of how things work on the ground
• Obscure transport facts that you can share with us

Get in touch

We’re open to candidates from all backgrounds, however unconventional, and we avoid formal requirements wherever we can. If you think you fit the role, we’d love to meet you!