Engineering Manager, Product Team

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.

The Role

Swiftly is looking for an Engineering Manager to join a new cross-functional product team. Your team will ideate, discover, design, and deliver products that seamlessly integrate with Swiftly’s tools that enable transit agencies to run effective operations. You’ll guide your team in embracing new technologies to deliver an innovative, differentiated experience.

We seek Engineering Managers who are curious about problems to solve and orient toward impact by being flexible in their specific contributions to help their team succeed. Technical experience across cloud software, people management experience, team leadership experience, and a drive for excellence and continuous improvement will differentiate you. Your work will ultimately bring tangible, real-world-impacting products to transportation agencies and transit riders.

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!

* We use AI tools for scheduling and summarization in our hiring process. We do not use AI tools to make decisions about who moves forward or to assess the strength of candidates. Every application is reviewed and all hiring decisions are made by Swiftly team members. This is an active, open role that we are currently hiring for at Swiftly.

• Partner with the team’s Product Manager, Designer, and Engineers to understand customer needs, define impactful solutions, set milestones and goals, and deliver valuable products to market
• Facilitate technical discovery, translating rapid learning into product designs and guiding engineers as plans solidify
• Guide the team to balance technical excellence with rapid delivery, evolving practices as products scale
• Act as a trusted technical mentor and partner, while guiding the architecture and contributing hands‑on when most valuable to the team
• Proactively seek feedback and communicate progress, learnings, and blockers to drive alignment across teams
• Manage team members with a focus on enabling a supportive, inclusive, growth‑oriented, and outcome‑focused culture on the team
• Create an environment where your direct reports are proud to work at Swiftly, as measured by employee retention and employee satisfaction scores

• You have 3+ years of experience in team leadership and people management
• Proven experience guiding teams toward outcomes and delivering end‑to‑end products in cloud‑based SaaS environments
• Experience taking a product or feature from concept to launch and scaling it for broader use
• Strong ability to support team execution by clarifying goals and breaking…