The Role
Swiftly is looking for a Senior Software Engineer with experience building scalable cloud-based services. You’ll collaborate seamlessly with Product Managers, Designers and teammates to discover the right solutions. You will work across the stack — contributing to backend services as well as modern frontend applications — to deliver seamless, end-to-end experiences for our customers. Our backend environment includes Java, Node.js, and Python; our MV* framework of choice is Vue.js, but we welcome applicants who are excited to work across languages and have strong experience with any major MV* framework.
We encourage you to apply if the above is exciting to you and if you meet half or more of the below requirements. Above all else, we value candidates who angle toward growth, leveraging a positive attitude and the aptitude to relentlessly seek and solve problems to deliver impact. We know the tech landscape is ever-changing and strongly support individual growth. If this is exciting to you, then we'd love to talk!
What you'll do
- Design, build, maintain and extend products, features, and functionality that solve real customer problems
- Partner with Product, Design, and Engineering to discover and validate customer needs and technical approaches
- Prototype quickly, and as necessary, to de-risk projects, test assumptions, and iterate ideas into production-ready solutions
- Consistently deliver incremental value by anticipating dependencies, breaking down work, and regularly demoing progress
- Communicate technical trade-offs, present system design proposals clearly, and document architectural decisions
- Apply modern software engineering practices to deliver robust, maintainable, and extensible systems
- Uplevel teammates through code reviews, pairing, and strong collaboration
- Take ownership of your code and product domain, engaging in retrospectives and continuously improving how the team works
What will set you up for success
- Motivated by mission-driven work and excited to improve public transit
- 5+ years of relevant software engineering experience
- Experience building real-time data processing systems
- Comfort applying modern AI tools to accelerate development and improve quality
- Full-stack skills: strong in at least one of Java, Python, or Node/JavaScript; comfortable building modern frontends (Vue.js a plus); eager to learn across the stack
- Experience building and consuming APIs; proficiency with SQL and non-relational databases, including making informed schema and data-modeling decisions
- Experience with cloud-native architectures and services (AWS preferred)
- Strong product mindset — you use technology pragmatically to solve meaningful customer problems
- Continuous learner who embraces emerging technologies and helps others grow
- Collaborative team player who contributes wherever needed to support team goals
- Open to feedback (a core Swiftly value!), humble in technical debate, and committed to blameless learning and improvement
Pay Range
In accordance with pay transparency laws, please see the approximate salary ranges below. These ranges represents the anticipated low and high end of the salary for this position. Actual salaries will vary and are based on a multitude of non-discriminatory factors including final role leveling decisions, a candidate’s relevant work experiences/skills, and geographic location. Salary is one component of Swiftly’s total compensation package, which also includes stock options, competitive benefits, 401(k)/ RRSP matching, a fantastic team and culture, opportunity to have a huge impact, emphasis on professional growth and holistic wellness, and other perks.
US Salary Range: $130,000 - $210,000
Canadian Salary Range: $140,000-200,000
Beyond the Skills
We are looking for candidates who are passionate about mobility, sustainability, or mission-oriented projects that have a significant real-world impact. Ideal candidates encompass the core values of our company:
- Team. Together, we are more effective and better supported
- Impact. Drive impact for our customers, our company, and all of our teams
- Diversity. See differing perspectives as ways to address our weaknesses and find new strengths
- Communication. Assume others internally and externally have good intentions
- Feedback. We share feedback because we want each other to grow professionally and personally
- Growth. Foster personal, professional, and company growth
Top Skills
What We Do
Swiftly is the leading transit data platform for agencies to share real-time passenger information, manage day-to-day operations, and improve service performance. Today, over 140 transit agencies in 8 countries – including LA Metro, MARTA, SEPTA, MBTA, and WMATA – rely on Swiftly to improve on-time performance by up to 40%, increase passenger information accuracy by up to 50%, and analyze transit data 90% faster. The result is better service reliability, increased ridership, and more efficient transit operations.
