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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 180 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.

We are looking for an Android Engineer who will contribute significantly to Swiftly’s connected transit platform. You will join a small, agile team working to extend our platform into the mobile realm. Your initial focus will be designing, developing, and implementing product features, architecture, and testing infrastructure to enhance our Onboard App experience.

• Design, build, deliver, maintain, and extend features and functionality that solve real customer problems.
• Contribute technically to Swiftly’s mobile applications, optionally to backend and API systems if able.
• Partner with product management, design, and engineers to discover the right solution to customer problems, building quick prototypes to assess technical design and estimate effort.
• Deliver functionality that helps your team make progress on our product vision, anticipating dependencies, breaking down work, and demonstrating incremental progress.
• Seek feedback on system designs by identifying technical tradeoffs, presenting proposed solutions clearly, and documenting decisions.
• Leverage modern software engineering principles and deliver robust, maintainable, extensible code, including contributing to Swiftly’s Design System.
• Elevate your team and others through mentoring, code reviews, pairing, and embodying excellent teamwork.
• Take ownership of your product and code, and reflect on improvement through retrospectives and a continuous improvement mindset.

• Excitement to be part of a mission-driven company.
• 3+ years of software engineering experience building Android applications in Kotlin.
• Strong experience with modern Android paradigms and toolkits including Kotlin coroutines and Jetpack Compose.
• A passion for quality, reliability, and stability, demonstrated through performance monitoring, observability, and unit and integration testing.
• Bonus: additional mobile (iOS) or full stack development experience.
• Bonus: experience with map-based experiences or real-time communication (VoIP, WebRTC, Web Sockets).
• Love applying technology to solve real problems for customers and users.
• Embrace continuous learning and adapt as technology evolves.
• Dynamic team player who contributes wherever needed.
• Open to feedback, approach technical debates with humility, and participate in blameless postmortems.

US Salary Range: $107,000 - $175,000

Canadian Salary Range: $117,000 - $160,000

We are looking for candidates who are passionate about mobility, sustainability, or mission-oriented projects that have a significant real-world impact. Ideal candidates encompass the core values of our company:

• Team:
  Together, we are more effective and better supported.
• Impact:
  Drive impact for our customers, our company, and all our teams.
• Diversity:
  See differing perspectives as ways to address weaknesses and find strengths.
• Communication:
  Assume others have good intentions.
• Feedback:
  Share feedback to grow professionally and personally.
• Growth:
  Foster personal, professional, and company growth.

• 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
• 8 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 is expected and encouraged, though we understand personal circumstances and will consider exceptions. Customer-facing team members or 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.