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# Software Engineer - Full-stack at Swiftly, Inc.

- **Company:** Swiftly, Inc.
- **Location:** United States
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-07-01
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-07
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/goswift/ae7b1e71-b783-4677-9cfa-dcce51333dfa

## Job description

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 200 transit agencies in 12 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.

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.

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.

## About the Role

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.

## What You'll Do

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. What Will Set You Up for Success 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. We encourage you to apply if the above is exciting to you and if you meet half or more of the requirements below. 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 sounds like you, we'd love to talk.

Pay Range In accordance with pay transparency laws, please see the approximate salary ranges below. These ranges represents the anticipated low and high end of the salary and any on-target earnings (if applicable) for this position. Actual salaries will vary and are based on a multitude of non-discriminatory factors including final role leveling decisions, a candidate’s relevant work experiences/skills, and geographic location. Salary is one component of Swiftly’s total compensation package, which also includes stock options, competitive benefits, 401(k)/ RRSP matching, a fantastic team and culture, opportunity to have a huge impact, emphasis on professional growth and holistic wellness, and other perks. US Salary Range: $130,000 - $180,000 Canadian Salary Range: $140,000 - $190,000

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

Travel note: Swiftly employees can generally expect to travel 1–2 times a year for in-person company or team offsites. As a fully distributed company, we consider these offsites important for cultivating strong relationships across our teams! Attending these in-person is expected and encouraged, although we understand everyone has different personal circumstances and we will consider requests for exceptions. Customer-facing team members and other specific roles may be expected to travel more frequently.

We are an equal opportunity employer - we are committed to a workplace that is as dynamic, diverse, and passionate as the communities we serve.

## About Swiftly, Inc.

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Swiftly provides a leading data platform that helps public transit agencies improve real-time passenger information, operational efficiency, and service performance.
- **Entity Type**: Private (venture-backed; total funding $37.2M across multiple rounds including Series A)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2014
- **Founders**: Jonny Simkin (Co-founder & CEO) and additional co-founders

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Public transportation software / Transit data platform
- **Target customers**: B2B – transit agencies (public and private) in cities worldwide; serves over 200 agencies in 12 countries including LA Metro, MARTA, SEPTA, MBTA, and WMATA
- **Mission**: Improve urban mobility by building tools that address today’s biggest challenges in transportation, making cities move more efficiently

## Products & Services
- **Real-time Passenger Information**: Best-in-class vehicle predictions that leverage real-time disruption data, paired with optional rider alerts
- **Performance Insights**: Historical trends that support smart decision-making, build consensus, and improve the rider experience across the agency
- **Proactive Operations**: Dynamic real-time fleet visibility and management, enabling everyone to know what’s happening in the network
- **Integrations and APIs**: Real-time data quality monitoring across existing systems, plus APIs and open data standards for permissionless innovation

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed (private company)
- **Key Metric**:
  - Annual Revenue: $6.2M (as of latest LinkedIn data)
  - Total Funding: $37.25M (11 funding rounds; latest venture round in May 2025)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Renewal Funds, Via ID (led Series A in 2020); other institutional investors
- **Growth Signals**:
  - 105 employees (+19.0% YoY, +22 people)
  - Trusted by over 200 transit agencies across 12 countries
  - Powers over 1.5 billion passenger trips per year (2.4B trips per year on the platform)
  - Customers see up to 40% improvement in on-time performance, up to 50% increase in passenger information accuracy, and 90% faster transit data analysis

## Competitive Advantages
- **Data platform moat**: Analyzes billions of data points to produce the industry’s most accurate vehicle predictions (past, present, and future)
- **Proven results**: Quantifiable improvements in on-time performance, headway adherence, and schedule optimization
- **Deep integrations**: Works with existing agency systems and open data standards, reducing switching costs for customers
- **Customer base**: Adoption by major U.S. transit agencies (LA Metro, MARTA, SEPTA, MBTA, WMATA) provides strong social proof and network effects

## Strategic Focus
- **Current priorities**: Expanding global agency footprint, deepening data analytics capabilities, and improving real-time operational tools
- **Direction**: Continue building the leading transit data platform to help cities make data-driven decisions, increase ridership, and improve equity and sustainability in urban mobility

## Why Work Here
- **Mission-driven culture**: Employees care deeply about mobility, sustainability, equity, and solving real-world problems; volunteer happy hours, charity matching, and educational opportunities are part of the culture
- **Remote-first**: Fully remote team (US, Canada, Spain, Australia, France); home office stipend provided
- **Compensation & benefits**: Competitive salary, stock options, 401k match, flexible spending account, medical/dental/vision, unlimited PTO, 17 paid holidays, 8 fully-paid weeks for child birth/adoption
- **Learning & growth**: $50/month employee learning stipend; book clubs, professional certifications, conferences
- **Inclusive environment**: Pronoun policy, Culture Committee, employee resource groups (La Guagua for Latinx, parents group, women-identifying/femme/trans/non-conforming breakfast)
- **Social connection**: Encouraged social 1:1s via donut app; 6x more social 1:1s than companies of similar size

## Sources
1. [goswift.ly/careers](https://www.goswift.ly/careers)
2. [goswift.ly](https://www.goswift.ly/)
3. [goswift.ly/about](https://www.goswift.ly/about)
4. [linkedin.com/company/swiftlyinc](https://linkedin.com/company/swiftlyinc)
5. [jobs.lever.co/goswift](https://jobs.lever.co/goswift/)

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