Engineering Manager

Swiftly, Inc.

68d•$160,000 - $225,000•Remote

About The Position

Swiftly is looking for an Engineering Manager to lead a cross-functional product team that builds the real-time operational tools transit agencies rely on every day. Your team owns Live Operations (a real-time, map-based dispatch dashboard), GPS Playback (historical trip analysis), and an expanding suite of communication and coordination capabilities that connect dispatchers, operators, and field supervisors. We seek Engineering Managers who are curious about problems to solve and orient toward impact by being flexible in their specific contributions to help their team succeed. You will be responsible for growing and supporting a high-performing team, driving delivery of complex web-based products, and ensuring your engineers have the context, support, and technical direction they need to do their best work. You should bring deep familiarity with modern web technologies, real-time data systems, and map-based applications â enough to guide architectural decisions, mentor engineers, and engage credibly in technical discussions. The team is at an exciting inflection point: sustaining and improving established products that agencies depend on daily while building new capabilities that will define how transit operations teams communicate, coordinate, and resolve issues in real time. You'll need to balance these priorities, collaborate closely with partner teams, and help the team navigate the transition from early-stage features to scalable, enterprise-ready products. We encourage you to apply if you meet half or more of the requirements and are excited to learn about the rest. Above all else, we value candidates with a growth mindset, the aptitude to learn, and strong motivation to deliver impact to customers. If this is exciting to you, we'd love to talk!

Requirements

3+ years of experience in engineering team leadership and people management, with a track record of developing engineers and building high-performing teams
Proven experience guiding teams toward outcomes and delivering end-to-end products in cloud-based SaaS environments
Broad experience across the stack (frontend, backend, data). Bonus if you have experience with AWS, JavaScript/Vue.js, Postgres, Java
Familiarity with real-time data systems, including technologies like WebSockets, pub/sub architectures, or streaming data pipelines
Comfortable applying modern AI tools and techniques in the software development lifecycle to accelerate development
Strong ability to support team execution by clarifying goals, breaking down work effectively, and managing competing priorities across multiple product surfaces
You seek and internalize feedback (a core Swiftly value!) and approach technical debates with humility
You are excited to be part of a mission-driven company improving public transit. Regardless of your why, it is important that you care about the work we do

Nice To Haves

Experience with map-based or geospatial web applications is a strong plus (e.g., MapLibre, Mapbox, Leaflet)

Responsibilities

Partner with the team's Product Manager, Designer, and Engineers to understand customer needs, define impactful solutions, set milestones and goals, and deliver valuable products to market
Facilitate technical discovery, translating rapid learning into product designs and guiding engineers as plans solidify
Guide the team to balance technical excellence with rapid delivery, evolving practices as products scale
Proactively seek feedback and communicate progress, learnings, and blockers to drive alignment across teams
Manage team members with a focus on enabling a supportive, inclusive, growth-oriented, and outcome-focused culture on the team
Balance investment across sustaining established products and delivering new capabilities, adjusting priorities as the team's product portfolio evolves
Stay apprised of developments in AI tooling, capturing improvements that drive efficiency and effectiveness of the team as product development evolves
Collaborate with partner product teams to ensure cohesive cross-team solutions, particularly where your team's products integrate with mobile, embedded, and backend systems
Create an environment where your direct reports are proud to work at Swiftly, as measured by employee retention and employee satisfaction scores