Remote Senior Software Engineer, Real-Time Cloud Services

Swiftly, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 130,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Equity compensation

Medical, Dental and Vision

Retirement with Employer Match

Flexible Spending Account (FSA)

Home office setup reimbursement

Monthly cell/internet reimbursement

Job summary

Swiftly, Inc. in San Francisco is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to build scalable cloud-based services across backend and frontend. You will collaborate with product managers, designers, and peers to deliver end-to-end experiences using Java, Python, Node.js and Vue.js.

The role emphasizes real-time data processing, APIs, and cloud-native architectures (AWS). You will contribute to system design, code reviews, and mentoring, while staying curious about AI tools to accelerate development and

Qualifications

• 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; 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 and committed to blameless learning and improvement.

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.
• Up level 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

Real-time processing

API design

Cloud-native

Java

Python

Node.js

Vue.js

SQL/NoSQL

Tools

Java

Python

Node.js

Vue.js

AWS

SQL/NoSQL

Job description

Swiftly, Inc. in San Francisco is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to build scalable cloud-based services across backend and frontend. You will collaborate with product managers, designers, and peers to deliver end-to-end experiences using Java, Python, Node.js and Vue.js.

The role emphasizes real-time data processing, APIs, and cloud-native architectures (AWS). You will contribute to system design, code reviews, and mentoring, while staying curious about AI tools to accelerate development and