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Swiftly, Inc.

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51 - 200 employees

🚗 Transport

💰 Private Equity Round on 2020-12

Transport • Software

Swiftly, Inc. is a company that specializes in enhancing public transit through a comprehensive data platform. Their services focus on improving real-time passenger information, operational efficiency, and predictive insights for transit agencies. With a digital platform that supports transit management, Swiftly provides tools to optimize scheduling, planning, and customer service in public transport. The company aims to streamline the flow of information and enhance the decision-making process for transit operators to boost the overall passenger experience.

📋 Description

• Design, evaluate, build, and maintain 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 power customer-facing products. • Build data infrastructure to support rigorous algorithm development, validating changes at scale before they reach production. This may include 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 approaches, and deliver incremental value. • Break down complex problems into smaller, testable pieces to help the team move quickly and reliably. • Share designs and technical decisions openly, weighing tradeoffs and documenting for alignment. • Apply modern engineering practices to deliver robust, maintainable, and extensible code. • Support and elevate teammates through code reviews, pairing, and knowledge sharing. • Take ownership of your work and team outcomes, continuously reflecting and improving.

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, ideally with data-intensive or real-time systems. • Experience with Java and cloud-native backend services (AWS preferred). • You've taken algorithms from idea to implementation, delivering production-ready systems that drive real-world impact. • Strong understanding of real-time data processing, such as streaming, event-driven, or predictive systems. • Comfortable building and consuming APIs; proficient with SQL. • Curiosity and excitement about applying predictive algorithms to solve real-world problems in transit. • Growth mindset and adaptability in a fast-changing technical landscape. • Collaborative, humble, and open to feedback; thrives in blameless, team-oriented environments.

🏖️ 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