Staff Engineer, Swiftly
$175-185k
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Accelerating retail with AI
Posted today
Accelerating retail with AI
101-200 employees
Posted today
$175-185k
More information about location
101-200 employees
Company mission
To connect you with your customers by providing tools and technology that touch every aspect of their retail experience.
Role
Who you are
- Successful candidates will bring a strong backend software development background, and a track record of working on integration/onboarding projects in an enterprise environment
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science/Engineering or comparable industry experience
- 10+ years of industry experience designing, building, and maintaining backend services
- Proficiency and strong experience in Ruby on Rails platforms
- Proficiency with containerized services and git-based workflows
- Strong experience with technologies including:
- Ruby on Rails
- Docker & Kubernetes
- PostgreSQL
- AWS including Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC)
- React (web JS), optionally also React-Native
- Experience with test-driven development and automated testing frameworks
- Experience with Scrum, Agile, Kanban, or similar development methodologies
- Capable of balancing competing priorities based on a solid understanding of business needs
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Experience working with brick and mortar retail environments
Desirable
- Mix of startup and large software company experience
- Experience with any of: Kotlin/Quarkus, Azure cloud, GitOps, ArgoCD
What the job involves
- Swiftly is searching for a Staff Engineer with a strong desire to ship quality code quickly, focusing on building Swiftly’s platforms and integrating new retailer partners
- Architect, design, and implement backend services to support a rich ecosystem of APIs used by mobile and web clients
- Automate manual processes to streamline internal and external experiences and workflows
- Manage and collaborate with cross-functional teams to capture requirements
- Configure, build, test, and deploy integration software solutions
- Collaborate with solutions engineers and technical program managers to write technical design proposals and participate in and/or oversee code reviews
- Write scalable tests, release plans, and end-user documentation to support our fast-growing organization
- Resolve (diagnose, track, and manage) software integration issues
- Deliver technical improvements and bug fixes
- Work closely with the internal support team and business users to understand the business requirements and ideate new solutions
- Provide recommendations for standard methodologies pertaining to integration design and development
- Availability for on-call (about 10 days a month)
- Other related duties as assigned
Our take
Online shopping seems to have become the norm, and yet 80% of American grocery shopping is still done in person. This is the market Swiftly seeks to engage with its mobile platform specifically aimed at physical stores.
It markets itself as helping brick-and-mortar stores compete with online business. These stores have the benefits of locality and community, but with Swiftly’s app and mobile tools they have data-heavy consumer analytics, targeted product suggestions, delivery options and loyalty schemes on top. There’s a couple of other features as well, but essentially it lets physical stores operate in a digital market while still benefitting from the functionality of the store itself.
It’s a clever idea that seeks to capitalize on the myriad potential of smaller businesses, rather than looking for a handful of big client deals. There are other companies operating in the digital/physical crossover retail space, like Foxtrot, but Swiftly’s one-size-fits-all platform has greater potential for scalability, turning heads by raising $200M in funding in just 6 months. Its latest investment is being focussed on expanding into new stores, new countries, and new areas of retail.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Sep 2022
$100m
SERIES C
Mar 2022
$100m
SERIES B
Total funding: $215.6m
Company HQ
Millbrae, CA
Leadership
Karen Ho
(Co-Founder & Technical Fellow)Previously worked as an Application Developer at Goldman Sachs and an Instructor at Hackbright Academy, before becoming Full Stack Engineer at both Symphony Commerce and Scoutible.
Sean Turner
(Co-Founder & CTO)Former Software Development Engineer at Microsoft and Head of Product at Symphony Commerce.
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