Company Description

Swiftly is on a mission to help cities move more efficiently. We are the leading transit data platform for agencies to share real-time passenger information, manage day-to-day operations, and improve service performance. Today, over 150 transit agencies in 8 countries – including LA Metro, MARTA, SEPTA, and MBTA – rely on Swiftly to improve on-time performance by up to 40% and increase passenger information accuracy by up to 50%. The result is better service reliability, increased ridership, and more efficient transit operations.

Engineering at Swiftly

Engineering at Swiftly is not only about writing code – we believe in creating empowered product teams that work together to conceptualize new features and bring them to life. Each team aims to strike a balance between delivering incremental improvements, creating prototypes to test new ideas and mitigate risks, and building scalable software using industry best practices. We’re guided by a mission to positively impact transit riders, and we embrace humility and intentionality in how we make technical decisions so that we best meet our customers’ needs.

Even though Swiftly's HQ office is located in San Francisco, CA, we are open to candidates in most locations across the U.S. as well as Ontario and British Columbia, Canada. At this time we are unable to provide Visa sponsorship.

About the Role

This person will join our team that owns the real-time source of truth for our system, algorithmically generating complete real-time passenger information and surfacing actionable historical insights. Your software will be used day-to-day by transit professionals to manage service, identify opportunities to improve service, and keep passengers informed through partner apps and integrations.

This is a full-stack team responsible for real-time data processing, the API layer, and the client-side SaaS web applications used to visualize the network, adjust service, and analyze the agency’s performance data. The team’s goals include generating complete and trustworthy data, surfacing more options for operations to manage service and turn real-time insights into action, and scaling to more and larger accounts. Individual responsibilities will vary over time based on your skills and the needs and prioritization of the team collectively, but the opportunity is to work on a variety of systems that will make a tangible impact to public transit and Swiftly as a company.

Experience with data systems and processing on the backend makes you a good fit for this role, along with designing and building cloud-based Java backend services and APIs. Additionally, as this is a full-stack team, experience collaborating with peers to deliver end-to-end experiences across frontend and backend is desired. In general, we’d love to see candidates apply who enjoy product development as a means to enable you to solve problems end-to-end with your teammates.

We encourage you to apply if the above is exciting to you and if you meet half or more of the below requirements. Above all else, we value candidates who angle toward growth, leveraging a positive attitude and the aptitude to relentlessly seek and solve problems to deliver impact. We know the tech landscape is ever-changing and strongly support individual growth. If this is exciting to you, then we'd love to talk!