Swiftly, Inc. - Engineering Manager
Requirements
• Partner with the team's Product Manager, Designer, and Engineers to understand customer needs, define impactful solutions, set milestones and goals, and deliver valuable products to market • Facilitate technical discovery, translating rapid learning into product designs and guiding engineers as plans solidify • Guide the team to balance technical excellence with rapid delivery, evolving practices as products scale • Proactively seek feedback and communicate progress, learnings, and blockers to drive alignment across teams • Manage team members with a focus on enabling a supportive, inclusive, growth-oriented, and outcome-focused culture on the team • Balance investment across sustaining established products and delivering new capabilities, adjusting priorities as the team's product portfolio evolves • Stay apprised of developments in AI tooling, capturing improvements that drive efficiency and effectiveness of the team as product development evolves • Collaborate with partner product teams to ensure cohesive cross-team solutions, particularly where your team's products integrate with mobile, embedded, and backend systems • Create an environment where your direct reports are proud to work at Swiftly, as measured by employee retention and employee satisfaction scores • 3+ years of experience in engineering team leadership and people management, with a track record of developing engineers and building high-performing teams • Proven experience guiding teams toward outcomes and delivering end-to-end products in cloud-based SaaS environments • Broad experience across the stack (frontend, backend, data). Bonus if you have experience with AWS, JavaScript/Vue.js, Postgres, Java • Familiarity with real-time data systems, including technologies like WebSockets, pub/sub architectures, or streaming data pipelines • Experience with map-based or geospatial web applications is a strong plus (e.g., MapLibre, Mapbox, Leaflet) • Comfortable applying modern AI tools and techniques in the software development lifecycle to accelerate development • Strong ability to support team execution by clarifying goals, breaking down work effectively, and managing competing priorities across multiple product surfaces • You seek and internalize feedback (a core Swiftly value!) and approach technical debates with humility • 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
Responsibilities
• Partner with the team's Product Manager, Designer, and Engineers to understand customer needs, define impactful solutions, set milestones and goals, and deliver valuable products to market • Facilitate technical discovery, translating rapid learning into product designs and guiding engineers as plans solidify • Guide the team to balance technical excellence with rapid delivery, evolving practices as products scale • Proactively seek feedback and communicate progress, learnings, and blockers to drive alignment across teams • Manage team members with a focus on enabling a supportive, inclusive, growth-oriented, and outcome-focused culture on the team • Balance investment across sustaining established products and delivering new capabilities, adjusting priorities as the team's product portfolio evolves • Stay apprised of developments in AI tooling, capturing improvements that drive efficiency and effectiveness of the team as product development evolves • Collaborate with partner product teams to ensure cohesive cross-team solutions, particularly where your team's products integrate with mobile, embedded, and backend systems • Create an environment where your direct reports are proud to work at Swiftly, as measured by employee retention and employee satisfaction scores • What will set you up for success • 3+ years of experience in engineering team leadership and people management, with a track record of developing engineers and building high-performing teams • Proven experience guiding teams toward outcomes and delivering end-to-end products in cloud-based SaaS environments • Broad experience across the stack (frontend, backend, data). Bonus if you have experience with AWS, JavaScript/Vue.js, Postgres, Java • Familiarity with real-time data systems, including technologies like WebSockets, pub/sub architectures, or streaming data pipelines • Experience with map-based or geospatial web applications is a strong plus (e.g., MapLibre, Mapbox, Leaflet) • Comfortable applying modern AI tools and techniques in the software development lifecycle to accelerate development • Strong ability to support team execution by clarifying goals, breaking down work effectively, and managing competing priorities across multiple product surfaces • You seek and internalize feedback (a core Swiftly value!) and approach technical debates with humility • 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
Benefits
• In accordance with pay transparency laws, please see the approximate salary ranges below. These ranges represents the anticipated low and high end of the salary and any on-target earnings (if applicable) for this position. Actual salaries will vary and are based on a multitude of non-discriminatory factors including final role leveling decisions, a candidate’s relevant work experiences/skills, and geographic location. Salary is one component of Swiftly’s total compensation package, which also includes stock options, competitive benefits, 401(k)/ RRSP matching, a fantastic team and culture, opportunity to have a huge impact, emphasis on professional growth and holistic wellness, and other perks. • US Salary Range: $160,000 - $225,000 USD • Canadian Salary Range: $175,000 - $220,000 CAD • 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 • 8 fully paid weeks of leave for child birth/adoption • Travel note: 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.
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