Making cities move more efficiently
Senior Software Engineer – Backend
Location
California
Posted
5 days ago
Salary
0
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Senior Software Engineer – Backend
Swiftly, Inc.
• Design, evaluate, build, and maintain real-time algorithms and systems for vehicle tracking, map-matching, ETA predictions, and disruption detection. • Contribute to Swiftly's real-time data pipelines, APIs, and cloud services that power customer-facing products. • Build data infrastructure to support rigorous algorithm development, validating changes at scale before they reach production. This may include pipelines for capturing and replaying real-time data, offline evaluation frameworks, and shadow testing infrastructure. • Collaborate with product managers, designers, and engineers to prototype solutions, validate approaches, and deliver incremental value. • Break down complex problems into smaller, testable pieces to help the team move quickly and reliably. • Share designs and technical decisions openly, weighing tradeoffs and documenting for alignment. • Apply modern engineering practices to deliver robust, maintainable, and extensible code. • Support and elevate teammates through code reviews, pairing, and knowledge sharing. • Take ownership of your work and team outcomes, continuously reflecting and improving.
Job Requirements
- 5+ years of software engineering experience, ideally with data-intensive or real-time systems.
- Experience with Java and cloud-native backend services (AWS preferred).
- You've taken algorithms from idea to implementation, delivering production-ready systems that drive real-world impact.
- Strong understanding of real-time data processing, such as streaming, event-driven, or predictive systems.
- Comfortable building and consuming APIs; proficient with SQL.
- Curiosity and excitement about applying predictive algorithms to solve real-world problems in transit.
- Growth mindset and adaptability in a fast-changing technical landscape.
- Collaborative, humble, and open to feedback; thrives in blameless, team-oriented environments.
Benefits
- 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 - including months without US national holidays
- 12 fully paid weeks of leave for child birth/adoption
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