Responsibilities
- 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.
Requirements
- 5+ years of relevant software engineering experience.
- Full-stack skills: strong in at least one of Java, Python, or Node/JavaScript; comfortable building modern frontends; 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.
- Collaborative team player who contributes wherever needed to support team goals.
Nice to Have
- Motivated by mission-driven work and excited to improve public transit.
- Experience building real-time data processing systems.
- Comfort applying modern AI tools to accelerate development and improve quality.
- Vue.js frontend framework experience (a plus).
- Continuous learner who embraces emerging technologies and helps others grow.
- Open to feedback (a core Swiftly value), humble in technical debate, and committed to blameless learning and improvement.
Benefits
- Competitive salary
- Equity compensation (company ownership) for every employee
- Medical, Dental and Vision
- Retirement with Employer Match
- Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
- Home office setup reimbursement
- Monthly cell/internet reimbursement
- Monthly "Be Well" stipend
- Flexible PTO with a recommended minimum
- Flexible work environment
- 16 paid holidays - including months without US national holidays
- 12 fully paid weeks of leave for child birth/adoption
Work Arrangement
Hybrid — San Francisco, CA, most locations across the U.S., Ontario, British Columbia, Canada
Additional Information
- Travel: Swiftly employees can generally expect to travel 1–2 times a year for in-person company or team offsites. Attending these in-person is expected and encouraged, although exceptions may be considered based on personal circumstances.
- Customer-facing team members and other specific roles may be expected to travel more frequently.
- Equal opportunity employer: committed to a diverse and dynamic workplace.
- Fully distributed company with emphasis on cultivating strong team relationships through occasional in-person offsites.
