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About the role

  • Senior Software Engineer developing software for IoT devices in the public transit sector. Collaborating with product teams to improve transportation efficiency and customer experience.

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, maintain and extend products, features, and functionality that solve real customer problems
  • Partner with Product, Design, and Engineering to discover and validate customer needs and technical approaches
  • Develop and extend integrations with onboard hardware devices such as headsign controllers, passenger counters, and fareboxes
  • Build and improve cloud-native backend services that manage device configuration, process telemetry data, and provide observability into fleet-wide device health
  • Implement and maintain robust mechanisms for over-the-air software deployment, configuration updates, and remote device management
  • Design testing strategies that account for the realities of hardware-in-the-loop systems including integration testing, simulated environments, and production monitoring
  • Maintain and improve our physical hardware lab if local to San Francisco, else contribute to solutions for remote development, testing, and debugging needs
  • Consistently deliver incremental value by anticipating dependencies, breaking down work, and regularly demoing progress
  • Communicate technical trade-offs, present system design proposals clearly, and document architectural decisions
  • Uplevel teammates through code reviews, pairing, and strong collaboration
  • Take ownership of your code and product domain, engaging in retrospectives and continuously improving how the team works

Requirements

  • 5+ years of software engineering experience, with meaningful time spent working on embedded systems, IoT platforms, or edge computing
  • Proficiency with Linux including imaging, system administration, containerization, process management, networking, and security
  • Experience with communication protocols and paradigms of multiple varieties: serial interfaces (RS-232, J1708, CAN), network protocols (HTTP/REST, UDP v. TCP), and messaging patterns (MQTT, pub/sub, store-and-forward)
  • Familiarity with approaches to remote deployment and update mechanisms (eg. OTA updates, A/B partitioning, configuration management, edge container orchestration)
  • Interest in being hands on with code and devices, whether your comfort level is plugging in an ethernet cable or crimping your own
  • A testing and quality mindset, with strong opinions on system validation, automated testing, observability, and monitoring
  • Comfort applying modern AI tools to accelerate development and improve quality
  • Proficiency with languages and technologies in our stack: Python, Java, Javascript/Typescript, MQTT, SQL databases
  • Experience with cloud-native architectures and services (AWS preferred)
  • Strong product mindset — you use technology pragmatically to solve meaningful customer problems
  • Continuous learner who embraces emerging technologies and helps others grow
  • Collaborative team player who contributes wherever needed to support team goals
  • Open to feedback (a core Swiftly value!), humble in technical debate, and committed to blameless learning and improvement

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

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Senior

Salary

$140,000 - $205,000 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Tech skills

AWSCloudIoTJavaJavaScriptLinuxPythonSQLTypeScript

Location requirements

RemoteCanada

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