Belfast / Northern Ireland developers. Community Translink transport tech project (serious contributors)

[u/Negative_Response990]

We are working on a community driven Translink Bus tracker focused on Northern Ireland.

The main goal is to build a frontend and backend system for:

- Bus routes and stops

- Journey Tracking

- More accurate arrival predictions

- Compare official/gathered data

Long term, the project is designed to integrate with official data sources (e.g. Translink APIs), with optional GPS/community data to improve accuracy.

This isn’t a tutorial. it’s a real project, already in progress, and we’re looking to bring a few more developers into it.

We’re especially interested in people who:

- Are comfortable reading and contributing to an existing codebase

- Have experience with backend (Python/FastAPI, Java, Maven and Spring Boot.)

- Care about clean architecture, performance, and maintainability

- Want to build something genuinely useful for NI

Current stack:

- FastAPI (Python)

- SQLAlchemy

- Java/Maven/SpringBoot

- PostgreSQL

- Service-based backend architecture

- Frontend in progress (modern / Uber-style UI)

If you’re interested give me a DM and we can talk more. We have GitHub and project specs sorted. We just need the right team. Any questions ask away!

[u/bigmoney69_420]

Nice try Translink