Senior Software Engineer – Backend

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in California.

📋 Description

• Design, assess, construct, and sustain 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 empower customer-facing products.

• Develop data infrastructure to facilitate rigorous algorithm development, ensuring changes are validated at scale prior to production. This may encompass 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 methodologies, and deliver incremental value.

• Decompose complex issues into smaller, testable components to enable the team to progress quickly and reliably.

• Share designs and technical decisions transparently, considering trade-offs and documenting for alignment.

• Implement modern engineering practices to produce robust, maintainable, and extensible code.

• Support and uplift teammates through code reviews, collaborative work, and knowledge sharing.

• Take ownership of your tasks and team results, continually reflecting on and enhancing performance.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of software engineering experience, preferably with data-intensive or real-time systems.

• Proficient in Java and cloud-native backend services (AWS preferred).

• Experience taking algorithms from concept to execution, delivering production-ready systems that create real-world impact.

• Strong comprehension of real-time data processing, including streaming, event-driven, or predictive systems.

• Comfortable building and utilizing APIs; skilled in SQL.

• A curious mindset and enthusiasm for applying predictive algorithms to address real-world challenges in transit.

• A growth mindset and adaptability in a rapidly evolving technical environment.

• Collaborative, humble, and receptive to feedback; thrives in a blameless, team-oriented culture.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary

• Equity compensation (company ownership) for every employee

• Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage

• Retirement plan with Employer Match

• Flexible Spending Account (FSA)

• Reimbursement for home office setup

• Monthly reimbursement for cell/internet expenses

• 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 childbirth/adoption