Android Engineer

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 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 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.

Onboard App is an intuitive Android application for onboard tablets providing real‑time feedback directly to operators and vehicle analytics to Swiftly's transit data platform. It helps improve on time performance through turn‑by‑turn navigation, notification of service adjustments like detours or holds, and communication with dispatch. Running across buses, trains, and ferries, it boosts operator morale and performance by removing the guesswork from daily workflows, ultimately improving passenger satisfaction.

As you grow you will have the opportunity to shape not only the evolution of Onboard App but Swiftly's overall mobile strategy.

We encourage you to apply if the above is exciting to you and if you meet half or more of the below requirements. We’re also looking for candidates with a variety of experience levels for our team so welcome your application if your experience exceeds this list. 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 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. 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 ultimately by embodying and proliferating excellent teamwork
• Take ownership of your product and code, and reflect on how you and your team can improve by…