# Software Engineer in Algorithms & Optimization

This is an opportunity in the exciting and fast-growing transportation technology industry. Public transit is being transformed from a system of static, scheduled fixed-routes, to a dynamic on-demand network, and you will be one of the pioneers shaping this transformation. As the newest member of our Algorithms & Optimization team, you will contribute to the complex suite of algorithms that power RideCo’s core ridesharing platform. The ideal candidate must possess a sound grasp of Algorithms and Data Structures, strong critical thinking and reasoning skills, and the ability to produce readable, maintainable, and working software programs from abstract concepts and ideas. You will thrive in a small-team environment with fast-paced agile iterations, where every developer contributes code that delivers a meaningful impact to our customers and the company. Your day-to-day responsibilities will include: At RideCo, you will be switching hats between Software Engineer, and Data Scientist depending on the problem at hand. As a Software Engineer, you will: Contribute to a distributed platform architecture design for smart partitioning of the problem space, caching mechanisms, and microservi

- **Id**: 3758019
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/rideco-software-engineer-in-algorithms-optimization>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Waterloo, Canada
- **Countries**: CA
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-04T17:34:05Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-04
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-07T03:18:33Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 2
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5764
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Smart Mobility, Scheduling & Booking Software

## Company

- **Id**: 1777184
- **Name**: RideCo
- **Domain**: rideco.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/rideco>
- **Size band**: 11-50
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Trakstar

## Salary

- **Min**: 80000
- **Max**: 100000
- **Currency**: CAD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 71617

## Technologies

- **Agile** — Optional: no
- **Amazon CloudWatch** — Optional: no
- **Angular** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **Celery** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Django** — Optional: no
- **ElasticSearch** — Optional: no
- **Flask** — Optional: no
- **Grafana** — Optional: no
- **Gunicorn** — Optional: no
- **Ionic** — Optional: no
- **JavaScript** — Optional: no
- **Jenkins** — Optional: no
- **Kibana** — Optional: no
- **Logstash** — Optional: no
- **Machine Learning** — Optional: no
- **Nginx** — Optional: no
- **PostgreSQL** — Optional: no
- **Prometheus** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **RabbitMQ** — Optional: no
- **Redis** — Optional: no
- **Rust** — Optional: no
- **Terraform** — Optional: no
- **TypeScript** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 2

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **Canada** — Iso: CA; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-04T17:34:05Z

## Visa

- Country: CA; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: Positions approved through LMIA in 12 months: 2; Filings 12m: 2

## Liveness

- **Score**: 90
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.903
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 1
- **Expected fill days**: 35
- **Reasons**: conf:1, velocity, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-06T05:58:05Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 71617
- **Is top pay**: no

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