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title: 'Principal Engineer - Platform & Data at Masabi'
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# Principal Engineer - Platform & Data at Masabi

- **Company:** Masabi
- **Location:** Canada / US East Coast
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-07-06
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-05
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/masabi/5590797a-cd8f-4bfc-9ac2-69060ce4ed03

## Job description

## About Us_

// At Masabi, we’re driving the fare payment revolution, powering the journeys of millions all over the world. We build 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.

Our Justride platform is used in over 250 locations globally, including some of the largest cities in the world. With our industry-first mobile ticketing SDK, we’ve partnered with large players in the transport space, including Uber, Moovit and Transit.

Your own journey is important to us too. Choosing a role here means joining a network of innovators from all walks of life; a group of passionate individuals who consistently deliver. Here, you’ll find the tools you need to build the career you want. Whether you’re taking the direct route or trying a new path, we’ll support you no matter what.

## THE ROLE_

// We’re looking for a Principal Engineer to join Masabi’s Architecture team.

This is a senior role for someone who combines deep technical expertise with strong judgement and the ability to operate across teams. You’ll help shape the technical direction of Masabi’s platform while staying close enough to the detail to design, review and deliver meaningful technical work.

Working across the engineering organisation, you’ll act as a senior technical leader: defining and evolving architecture, guiding complex decisions, and contributing hands-on where it matters most. A particular focus for this role is strengthening our data architecture, how we structure, use and build on the data our platform generates.

The role suits someone who can move between system-level thinking and implementation, someone who understands trade-offs, can navigate ambiguity, and helps turn complex or loosely defined problems into clear, practical technical approaches.

## LOCATION_

// This role is available on a remote basis for candidates located anywhere on the East Coast timezone in Canada.

## RESPONSIBILITIES_

- Shape Masabi’s platform architecture, including platform blueprint definition, standards and best practices
- Help shape Masabi's data architecture and strategy, including how we structure, store and make use of the data generated across our platform
- Design and deliver scalable, robust, cost efficient services aligned with platform blueprint
- Stay hands-on in code and technical delivery, including reviews and targeted contributions
- Identify and work through complex platform challenges related to scalability, performance, resilience and cost
- Act as a senior technical advisor across engineering teams, supporting and influencing technical decisions and ensuring Masabi standards are followed
- Shape and contribute to technical roadmap planning and prioritisation of platform improvements
- Support RFP estimation and technical scoping for complex initiatives
- Produce clear, high-quality technical documentation and architecture artefacts
- Improve how architecture is understood and applied across engineering and the wider business
- Contribute to and help shape technical forums and working groups, including areas such as API and architecture governance

## ABOUT YOU_

- You bring strong experience designing and evolving distributed systems and microservices architectures
- You’ve operated at Principal or Staff level, shaping technical direction across multiple teams or domains
- You are comfortable staying hands-on, contributing in code, design and delivery when needed
- You have strong experience with cloud platforms (AWS preferred) and modern infrastructure practices
- You’ve worked on systems where scale, reliability, performance and cost trade-offs matter, and can navigate those decisions thoughtfully
- You have proven experience in data architecture (e.g. data platforms, pipelines, warehousing or data lakes) and working on products built on top of large data stores
- You can take loosely defined (early stage) business or technical problems and turn them into clear, actionable technical approaches
- You communicate complex ideas clearly and effectively, and produce structured documentation that helps both technical and non-technical audiences make decisions
- You’ve contributed to engineering standards, architecture patterns or platform direction
- Strong experience with REST API design in complex, multi-service environments, ideally including how APIs are consumed on the front end
- Interest in or exposure to AI-enabled systems, particularly understanding architectural implications in production

## NICE TO HAVE_

- Experience breaking monolithic applications into microservices architectures
- Experience with event-driven architectures (e.g. Kafka, schema governance)
- Experience improving cloud cost and system efficiency at scale
- Familiarity with a range of tools and technologies including:
- Development: Kotlin, Java
- Data storage/processing: DynamoDB, MySQL, Snowflake, Databricks, Spark
- Infrastructure as code and CI/CD: Terraform, GitLab CI/CD

// You don’t need to have experience in every area listed above. If you bring strong fundamentals, good judgement and a willingness to learn, we’d still love to hear from you.

## SOME OF OUR BENEFITS_

- 20 days of vacation per year (in addition to public holidays). On top of this, our office is shut every year between Christmas and New Year, totaling a whopping 28+ days of vacation
- Private Healthcare and Life Insurance
- Menopause support
- Choice of a workstation
- Training allowance of up to CAD$1300 per year
- CAD$325 per year to spend on your home office
- $50 CAD per month for team building activities
- Ability to work for up to 3 months per year from any country in the world
- Enhanced family leave

Careers at Masabi are for people going places - driven by a mission to make transit fair and accessible for all.

// We are a network of innovators from all walks of life, passionate about making a difference. At Masabi, we operate with openness and trust, creating an environment where everyone feels empowered to bring their whole, authentic selves to work.

Whoever you are, just be yourself. // We welcome applications from underrepresented groups, including disabled and neurodivergent people, and can make adjustments at any stage of the process. You’re also welcome to share your pronouns whenever you feel comfortable. Together, we simplify journeys, remove barriers, and improve daily life for millions.

Why Join Masabi?

- Driven by Purpose – We believe in journeys made simple. The work isn’t always easy, but the best things never are.
- Encouraged to Accelerate – Masabi is going places and our people are in the driving seat. Whether you’re taking the direct route or exploring new paths, we support your journey.
- Advancing with Empathy – We put people first and foster a culture of learning, not blame. No matter your cargo, we share the load.

We’re already powering journeys - are you ready to join us?

## About Masabi

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Masabi provides a cloud-native Fare Payments-as-a-Service platform for public transport, enabling mobile ticketing, contactless payments, and account-based ticketing for transit agencies and operators.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series B; total funding USD 40.8M)
- **Headquarters**: London, England, United Kingdom
- **Founded**: 2012 per LinkedIn; conflicting reports indicate 2001 per CBInsights
- **Founders**: Not publicly available

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Urban Transit Services / Fare Collection Technology
- **Target customers**: B2B – transit agencies, operators, and transport authorities (serving 200+ agencies globally)
- **Mission or purpose statement**: “Let’s create a future where public transportation is the first choice for everyone.”

## Products & Services
- **Justride Platform (Fare Payments-as-a-Service)**: Account-Based Ticketing, mobile ticketing apps, contactless EMV (cEMV), smart card, and barcode ticketing – delivered via open APIs and SDKs. Cloud-native, enterprise-ready, and pre-integrated with validators, payment gateways, and acquiring banks.
- **Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) Integration**: Enables multi-modal journey planning and ticketing across different transport modes.
- **Express Fare Solutions & Enterprise Fare Solutions**: Modular, off-the-shelf or custom deployments for agencies of all sizes.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue of GBP 8.67M (approx. USD 11M) per LinkedIn; Total Funding USD 40.8M (7 rounds)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: m8 Capital (lead in early rounds), Smedvig Ventures, MMC Ventures; strategic partners include Panasonic, Transport for London, Cubic Transportation Systems
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount of 217 employees (+4.8% YoY); active job postings up +133% monthly; operates in 14 countries; recently launched account-based systems in Indianapolis and Galicia, Spain

## Competitive Advantages
- **Open, API-first platform** – Easier to integrate and customize than legacy closed systems.
- **Cloud-native & enterprise-ready** – Scales for large cities and complex transit networks.
- **Fare Payments-as-a-Service model** – Lowers total cost of ownership and accelerates launch timelines.
- **Trusted by 200+ agencies** – Proven track record since first UK mobile ticketing deployment in 2007.

## Strategic Focus
- Expanding account-based ticketing and contactless payments across regions (e.g., Spain, US).
- Deepening Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) integrations to create seamless multi-modal journeys.
- Growing the partner ecosystem and acquiring complementary technology (e.g., Passenger Technology Group).

## Why Work Here
- **Engineering culture**: 45% of staff in technical roles; active hiring for Principal Engineers, DevOps, and QA leads.
- **Global, diverse team**: Offices in London (HQ), New York, Denver, Cluj-Napoca (Romania), with employees in 14 countries.
- **Work environment**: Likely hybrid/remote-friendly given distributed offices; LinkedIn reviews rate work-life balance at 3.7/5.
- **Perks & growth**: Continuous updates to a cloud-native SaaS platform; visible impact on public transit infrastructure globally.
- **Open positions**: 7 active roles (as of search) including Principal Engineer, IT Help Desk, People Operations, and Customer Technical Support.

## Sources
1. [masabi.com](https://www.masabi.com/)
2. [linkedin.com/company/masabi](https://www.linkedin.com/company/masabi)
3. [cbinsights.com/company/masabi](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/masabi)
4. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/masabi](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/masabi)
5. [masabi.com/about](https://www.masabi.com/about/)

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