Spare | Vancouver or Remote (Canada/LATAM) | Full Time
Spare is a software platform for on-demand transportation. At the core, Spare Platform allows transit agencies to automate their on-demand transportation systems, from booking, scheduling and dispatching to engaging with customers.
At the core of Spare’s offerings is the Spare Platform, a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution that manages, dispatches and handles bookings for pooled on-demand and scheduled transit systems. Spare Platform encompasses a sophisticated back-end with a host of adjustable service parameters and an accessible front-end that keeps riders and drivers informed in real-time. It can handle any service configuration, optimize trips by pooling riders across these different service categories onto the same vehicle, and engage third-party fleets. Ideal use cases for the platform include first/last mile transit, taxi and ride-hail, paratransit, and on-demand transportation.
At Spare we believe that transportation is in the middle of a transition between traditional modes of travel to mobility as a service (MaaS). With this in mind, Spare has seamlessly integrated several smart transportation services on top of the powerful Spare Platform. From the apps to the dispatcher tools, Spare has focused on building an integrated experience where transportation experience is connected – not fragmented. This results in a single platform that can be launched across multiple travel modes that manage the whole journey, not just the trip.
I guess the biggest difference is that Keptn can act as a control-plane and connect to these tools.
Keptn itself has deployment capabilities built-in (using Helm charts) but can be connected to tools such as Jenkins, Gitlab, Spinnaker, ... as well.
The Keptn quality gates are comparable to Kayenta in Spinnaker I guess. Although in Keptn it is based on SRE best practices (such as service level indicators and service level objectives).
Another key differentiator is that Keptn takes care of operations as well. Being an event-based system Keptn retrieves (cloud) events and triggers other actions in response to them, such as counter action for Prometheus alerts or problem tickets from incident management system.
full disclosure: I am a Keptn contributor and maintainer.
Spare is a software platform for on-demand transportation. At the core, Spare Platform allows transit agencies to automate their on-demand transportation systems, from booking, scheduling and dispatching to engaging with customers.
At the core of Spare’s offerings is the Spare Platform, a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution that manages, dispatches and handles bookings for pooled on-demand and scheduled transit systems. Spare Platform encompasses a sophisticated back-end with a host of adjustable service parameters and an accessible front-end that keeps riders and drivers informed in real-time. It can handle any service configuration, optimize trips by pooling riders across these different service categories onto the same vehicle, and engage third-party fleets. Ideal use cases for the platform include first/last mile transit, taxi and ride-hail, paratransit, and on-demand transportation.
At Spare we believe that transportation is in the middle of a transition between traditional modes of travel to mobility as a service (MaaS). With this in mind, Spare has seamlessly integrated several smart transportation services on top of the powerful Spare Platform. From the apps to the dispatcher tools, Spare has focused on building an integrated experience where transportation experience is connected – not fragmented. This results in a single platform that can be launched across multiple travel modes that manage the whole journey, not just the trip.
You can learn more about us and our open roles here: https://sparelabs.com/en/company/careers/
Our technologies: Node.JS, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, Typescript, React Native, React
Technical opportunities at Spare: * Software Engineering Manager * Staff Software Engineer - Frontend and Mobile * Lead Software Engineer - Frontend Platform Team * Lead Software Engineer - Backend Platform Team * Intermediate Software Engineer * Senior Software Engineer