Swiftly is the AI platform purpose-built for retail, serving retailers, wholesalers, and brands. Swiftly's AI agents unify data, automate workflows, and power the marketing that drives measurable business growth. Swiftly AI is built on the industry's largest proprietary retail dataset: live transactions, 9 million products, and the closed-loop campaign outcomes of 33,000 stores.
Trusted by leading retailers, wholesalers, and hundreds of iconic brands, Swiftly unifies data across the retail ecosystem to accelerate growth and power the connected, personalized experiences that drive lasting shopper loyalty.
Position Summary:
Swiftly is searching for a Senior Software Engineer with experience developing and extending backend services in Kotlin, ideally with exposure to Quarkus or similar frameworks such as Spring Boot or Micronaut, running on Azure. This role will work within a fully remote startup environment and focus on maintaining and adding new features to existing services, improving the customer experience, and contributing to the continued development of the Swiftly platform. The Senior Software Engineer will work on the backend services that power the Swiftly platform’s core loyalty features, including coupons, rebates, and user authentication. Day to day, this role will design and write code for new features, as well as build and maintain the existing services that handle the core logic and data, such as loyalty, rebates, coupons, identity, ads, ecommerce, and flyers. The role will work with Product Managers to determine requirements and UI developers to agree on API endpoints. It will also involve reviewing logs and debugging services to fix bugs.
This is a full-time contract role. We use Deel as the employer of record and contract.
Responsibilities Include:
- Work on a team of developers that build services fundamental to the Swiftly platform
- Build and maintain services supporting loyalty features such as rebates, loyalty, coupons, flyers, ads, portal, identity, and search
- Develop and maintain backend services using Kotlin and Quarkus
- Take ownership of the domain from the ground up, from architectural decisions to coding to testing to operations
- Use IntelliJ and Gradle to build and manage project code as part of the team's development workflow with CI/CD using GitHub Workflows
- Collaborate closely with mobile, web, and SDK engineering teams through well-defined service interfaces
- Operate production services, including on-call and incident management
- Collaborate in a fast-paced environment
- Other related duties as assigned
Required Qualifications:
- B.S. in Computer Science/Engineering or comparable industry experience
- 5+ years of industry experience designing, building, and maintaining backend services
- Confidence writing code in Kotlin or Java
- Experience with a modern backend framework (Quarkus, Micronaut, SpringBoot, or similar)
- Strong SQL skills with PostgreSQL
- Experience building and running services on Azure or similar cloud platforms
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with Quarkus specifically
- Experience with NoSQL (e.g., DynamoDB)
- Experience with Kubernetes
- Experience with CI/CD using GitHub Workflows
- Experience with security protocols like OAuth, Firebase
- Startup experience and comfortable working on small remote teams
Skills Required
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or comparable industry experience
- 5+ years of industry experience designing, building, and maintaining backend services
- Confidence writing code in Kotlin or Java
- Experience with a modern backend framework such as Quarkus, Micronaut, Spring Boot, or similar
- Strong SQL skills with PostgreSQL
- Experience building and running services on Azure or similar cloud platforms
- Experience with Quarkus specifically
- Experience with NoSQL, such as DynamoDB
- Experience with Kubernetes
- Experience with CI/CD using GitHub Workflows
- Experience with security protocols such as OAuth and Firebase
- Startup experience and comfort working on small remote teams
What We Do
Swiftly is a leading provider of technology and solutions for retailers worldwide. Founded in 2018, Swiftly offers innovative solutions that drive engagement and enable retailers to own the digital relationship with their customer. Swiftly’s Retail Tools, Mobile Platform, Analytics and Insights, and Retail Media Network are integrated into a unified platform, which enables retailers to accelerate sales and build loyalty while empowering brands to reach more shoppers and amplify campaigns reaching more customers by using their own 1st party data. Trusted by hundreds of iconic brands, Swiftly is democratizing the retail industry and giving retailers the technology they need to compete in today’s crowded marketplace.
Why Work With Us
We’re building a culture where personal and professional growth drive business growth. Make an impact on customers and community, work with cool technology and build things that impact millions of customers every day.
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