Senior Software Engineer; IoT

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 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.

Swiftly is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join a cross-functional product team enabling our transit agency customers to operate and manage on-vehicle hardware systems and devices. Your team’s work spans technology stacks connecting cloud-native services interfacing with Swiftly’s core data engine to a variety of embedded/IoT devices running onboard public transit buses, trains, and ferries. You'll work across this full vertical, writing software that runs on edge devices in the field, building the communication layers that connect those devices to the cloud, and developing the backend services that configure, control, and process data from these sources.

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.

• 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

• Develop and extend integrations with onboard hardware devices such as headsign controllers, passenger counters, and fareboxes

• Build and improve cloud-native backend services that manage device configuration, process telemetry data, and provide observability into fleet-wide device health

• Implement and maintain robust mechanisms for over-the-air software deployment, configuration updates, and remote device management

• Design testing strategies that account for the realities of hardware-in-the-loop systems including integration testing, simulated environments, and production monitoring

• Maintain and improve our physical hardware lab if local to San Francisco, else contribute to solutions for remote development, testing, and debugging needs

• 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

• 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