Senior Software Engineer - Front End

Overview

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 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.

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.

We are looking for Senior Software Engineers with Front End experience who will contribute significantly to Swiftly’s vision of building a transit data platform. We are looking to hire multiple engineers across our real-time, operational, and historical product suites. You’ll join one of our product teams based on your experience with real-time voice communications, map-based web technologies, data visualizations, and the JavaScript ecosystem fundamentals that underpin all our work.

We’re seeking a mix of proactive leaders who care about shipping excellent product experiences to solve problems in transit and who care to shape the future of Swiftly s JS web platform. There will be a real, tangible impact from your work, as your products will be used by transit professionals to run more efficient, reliable service.

Experience with modern JavaScript front-ends is paramount for this role. Our MV
* framework of choice is Vue.js, but we welcome applicants who have strong experience with any major MV
* framework. Experience with cloud-based Node.js backend services and real-time communications systems are particularly a plus, as we welcome candidates who have a strong front-end foundation and enjoy full-stack development as a means to enable you to deliver end-to-end experiences with your teammates.

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!

• Design, build, deliver, maintain, and extend features and functionality that solve real customer problems
• Contribute technically to Swiftly’s SaaS web frontend applications and API systems as applicable
• Partner with product management, design, and engineers to discover the right solution to customer problems. This may include building quick prototypes to assess the right technical design and to accurately estimate the level of effort
• Deliver functionality that helps your team make progress on our product vision, especially by anticipating dependencies, breaking down work into smaller batches, and demonstrating incremental work in progress
• Seek feedback on system designs by identifying technical tradeoffs, presenting proposed solutions in a clear way, and documenting decisions
• Leverage modern software engineering principles and deliver robust, maintainable, extensible code, including by using and contributing to Swiftly’s Design System
• Elevate those on your team and on other teams through mentoring, code reviews, pairing, and…