Key skills
Engineering team leadershipCloud-based SaaS experienceReal-time data systemsFrontend developmentBackend developmentData managementMap-based applicationsAI tools proficiencyFeedback seekingTeam collaborationGrowth mindsetJavaScriptJavaAIVueVue.jsWebSocketsAWSPub/SubPostgresSaaSLeadershipTeam Leadership
About this role
Swiftly, Inc. is on a mission to help cities move more efficiently through their leading transit data platform. They are seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a cross-functional product team responsible for building real-time operational tools for transit agencies, ensuring high performance and effective product delivery.
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
Requirements:
- 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