Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Swiftly is a transit data platform helping cities improve service reliability, passenger information, and transit operations. The Engineering Manager will lead a cross-functional product team developing systems that connect cloud-native services with embedded and IoT devices used on public transit vehicles, while supporting team growth, technical direction, and end-to-end product delivery.
Responsibilities
- Partner with the team's Engineers and Product Manager to understand customer needs, define impactful solutions, set milestones and goals, and deliver valuable products to market
- Contribute to our products hands-on and as a technical mentor/partner
- Guide the team to balance technical excellence with rapid delivery, evolving practices as products scale
- Maintain and improve our physical hardware lab if local to San Francisco, else contribute to solutions for remote development, testing, and debugging needs
- Stay apprised of developments in AI tooling, capturing improvements that drive efficiency and effectiveness of the team as product development evolves
- Proactively seek feedback and share progress, learnings, and blockers to drive alignment cross-functionally
- Help define and refine our onboard architecture and implementation processes, including through observational customer site visits and collaboration with partners
- Manage team members with a focus on enabling a supportive, inclusive, growth-oriented, and outcome-focused culture on the team
- Create an environment where your direct reports are proud to work at Swiftly, as measured by employee retention and employee satisfaction scores
Skills
- * 3+ years of experience in engineering team leadership and people management, with a track record of developing engineers and building high-performing teams while remaining hands-on with technical contributions
- * Proven experience guiding teams toward outcomes and delivering end-to-end products spanning cloud-based SaaS environments and embedded hardware in the field
- * Strong ability to support team execution by clarifying goals, breaking down work effectively, and managing competing priorities across multiple product surfaces
- * Proficiency with languages and technologies in our stack: Python, Java, Javascript/Typescript, MQTT, SQL databases
- * 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)
- * Fluency with Linux including imaging, system administration, containerization, process management, networking, and security
- * Familiarity with approaches to remote deployment and update mechanisms (eg. OTA updates, A/B partitioning, configuration management, edge container orchestration)
- * A testing and quality mindset, with strong opinions on system validation, automated testing, observability, and monitoring
- * Experience with cloud-native architectures and services (AWS preferred)
- * Comfortable applying modern AI tools and techniques in the software development lifecycle to accelerate development
- * You seek and internalize feedback (a core Swiftly value!), are humble in technical debate, and committed to blameless learning and improvement
- * 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
- At this time we are unable to provide Visa sponsorship
- Swiftly employees can generally expect to travel 1–2 times a year for in-person company or team offsites. As a fully distributed company, we consider these offsites important for cultivating strong relationships across our teams! Attending these in-person is expected and encouraged, although we understand everyone has different personal circumstances and we will consider requests for exceptions. Customer-facing team members and other specific roles may be expected to travel more frequently
- * Experience with cloud-native architectures and services (AWS preferred)
Benefits
- 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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