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Senior Software Engineer (IoT)

British ColumbiaRemoteFull-Timesenior

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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,

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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.

Swiftly is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join a cross-functional product team enabling our transit agency customers to operate and manage on-vehicle hardware systems and devices. Your team’s work spans technology stacks connecting cloud-native services interfacing with Swiftly’s core data engine to a variety of embedded/IoT devices running onboard public transit buses, trains, and ferries. You'll work across this full vertical, writing software that runs on edge devices in the field, building the communication layers that connect those devices to the cloud, and developing the backend services that configure, control, and process data from these sources.

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!

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

Motivated by mission-driven work and excited to improve public transit

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