About the role

Engineering Manager at Swiftly leading a team to develop real-time operational tools for transit agencies. Focusing on impactful solutions and team growth.

Responsibilities

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
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
Balance investment across sustaining established products and delivering new capabilities, adjusting priorities as the team's product portfolio evolves
Stay apprised of developments in AI tooling, capturing improvements that drive efficiency and effectiveness of the team as product development evolves
Collaborate with partner product teams to ensure cohesive cross-team solutions, particularly where your team's products integrate with mobile, embedded, and backend systems
Create an environment where your direct reports are proud to work at Swiftly, as measured by employee retention and employee satisfaction scores

3+ years of experience in engineering team leadership and people management, with a track record of developing engineers and building high-performing teams
Proven experience guiding teams toward outcomes and delivering end-to-end products in cloud-based SaaS environments
Broad experience across the stack (frontend, backend, data). Bonus if you have experience with AWS, JavaScript/Vue.js, Postgres, Java
Familiarity with real-time data systems, including technologies like WebSockets, pub/sub architectures, or streaming data pipelines
Experience with map-based or geospatial web applications is a strong plus (e.g., MapLibre, Mapbox, Leaflet)
Comfortable applying modern AI tools and techniques in the software development lifecycle to accelerate development
Strong ability to support team execution by clarifying goals, breaking down work effectively, and managing competing priorities across multiple product surfaces
You seek and internalize feedback (a core Swiftly value!) and approach technical debates with humility
You are excited to be part of a mission-driven company improving public transit. Regardless of your why, it is important that you care about the work we do