Engineering Manager
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Engineering Manager leading teams that build transit hardware, IoT, and cloud systems. Swiftly helps cities improve public transportation efficiency and reliability.
Responsibilities:
- Join a cross-functional product team enabling transit agency customers to operate and manage on-vehicle hardware systems and devices
- Grow and support a high-performing engineering team, providing context, support, and technical direction
- Drive delivery of products spanning edge-device software, device-to-cloud communication layers, and backend services
- Partner with Engineers and the Product Manager to understand customer needs, define solutions, set milestones and goals, and deliver products to market
- Contribute hands-on to products and serve as a technical mentor and partner
- Balance technical excellence with rapid delivery and evolve practices as products scale
- Maintain and improve the physical hardware lab if local to San Francisco, or contribute to remote development, testing, and debugging solutions
- Evaluate AI tooling developments and capture improvements that increase team efficiency and effectiveness
- Seek feedback and share progress, learnings, and blockers to drive cross-functional alignment
- Define and refine onboard architecture and implementation processes through customer site visits and partner collaboration
- Manage team members while fostering a supportive, inclusive, growth-oriented, outcome-focused culture
- Build an environment where direct reports are proud to work at Swiftly, measured through retention and employee satisfaction
Requirements:
- 3+ years of experience in engineering team leadership and people management
- Track record of developing engineers and building high-performing teams while remaining hands-on with technical contributions
- Experience guiding teams toward outcomes and delivering end-to-end products spanning cloud-based SaaS environments and embedded hardware in the field
- Ability to clarify goals, break down work effectively, and manage competing priorities across multiple product surfaces
- Proficiency with Python, Java, Javascript/Typescript, MQTT, and SQL databases
- Experience with serial interfaces (RS-232, J1708, CAN), network protocols (HTTP/REST, UDP, 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 remote deployment and update mechanisms, including OTA updates, A/B partitioning, configuration management, and edge container orchestration
- Experience with system validation, automated testing, observability, and monitoring
- Experience with cloud-native architectures and services (AWS preferred)
- Comfort applying modern AI tools and techniques in the software development lifecycle
- Growth mindset, aptitude to learn, and strong motivation to deliver customer impact
- Candidates must be able to work in the United States or Ontario and British Columbia, Canada; Swiftly is unable to provide visa sponsorship
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
- Company or team offsites 1–2 times a year
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