Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Swiftly, Inc. is on a mission to help cities move more efficiently through their leading transit data platform. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to collaborate with product managers and designers, working across the stack to build scalable cloud-based services and deliver seamless experiences for customers.

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

Skills

• 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

Benefits

• 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

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