Senior Software Engineer (Full-stack)

Swiftly, Inc.

44d • Remote

About The Position

Swiftly is looking for a Senior Software Engineer with experience building scalable cloud-based services. You’ll collaborate seamlessly with Product Managers, Designers and teammates to discover the right solutions. You will work across the stack — contributing to backend services as well as modern frontend applications — to deliver seamless, end-to-end experiences for our customers. Our backend environment includes Java, Node.js, and Python; our MV framework of choice is Vue.js, but we welcome applicants who are excited to work across languages and have strong experience with any major MV framework.
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!

Requirements

• Motivated by mission-driven work and excited to improve public transit
• 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

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

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• 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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 11-50 employees