Senior Software Engineer - Real-Time Transit Platform

Swiftly, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); Remote; CAD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Equity compensation

Medical, Dental and Vision

Retirement with Employer Match

Flexible PTO with a recommended min

Flexible work environment

Home office setup reimbursement

Monthly cell/internet reimbursement

Monthly "Be Well" stipend

16 paid holidays

Job summary

Swiftly, Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to build scalable cloud-based services and collaborate across Product, Design, and Engineering.

You’ll work on backend services with Java, Python, and Node.js, and frontends with Vue.js, delivering end-to-end experiences for transit agencies. We value a strong product mindset, real-time data processing expertise, and comfort with APIs, SQL/NoSQL, and cloud-native architectures.

Qualifications

• Requires 5+ years of software engineering experience.
• Experience with real-time data processing systems.
• Comfort applying modern AI tools to accelerate development and improve quality.
• Full-stack proficiency: backend in Java, Python, or Node.js; frontend in Vue.js; willingness to learn across the stack.
• Experience building and consuming APIs; proficiency with SQL and non-relational databases, including informed schema and data modeling decisions.

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

Java

Python

Node.js

Vue.js

APIs

Real-time data processing

Cloud-native architectures

SQL

NoSQL

Product mindset

Tools

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

REST APIs

Vue.js

Job description

Swiftly, Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to build scalable cloud-based services and collaborate across Product, Design, and Engineering.

You’ll work on backend services with Java, Python, and Node.js, and frontends with Vue.js, delivering end-to-end experiences for transit agencies. We value a strong product mindset, real-time data processing expertise, and comfort with APIs, SQL/NoSQL, and cloud-native architectures.