Senior Software Engineer

Senior Software Engineer

Swiftly is the AI platform purpose-built for retail, serving retailers, wholesalers, and brands. Swiftly's AI agents unify data, automate workflows, and power the marketing that drives measurable business growth. Swiftly AI is built on the industry's largest proprietary retail dataset: live transactions, 9 million products, and the closed-loop campaign outcomes of 33,000 stores.

Trusted by leading retailers, wholesalers, and hundreds of iconic brands, Swiftly unifies data across the retail ecosystem to accelerate growth and power the connected, personalized experiences that drive lasting shopper loyalty.

Position Summary: Swiftly is searching for a Senior Software Engineer with experience developing and extending backend services in Kotlin, ideally with exposure to Quarkus or similar frameworks such as Spring Boot or Micronaut, running on Azure. This role will work within a fully remote startup environment and focus on maintaining and adding new features to existing services, improving the customer experience, and contributing to the continued development of the Swiftly platform. The Senior Software Engineer will work on the backend services that power the Swiftly platform's core loyalty features, including coupons, rebates, and user authentication. Day to day, this role will design and write code for new features, as well as build and maintain the existing services that handle the core logic and data, such as loyalty, rebates, coupons, identity, ads, ecommerce, and flyers. The role will work with Product Managers to determine requirements and UI developers to agree on API endpoints. It will also involve reviewing logs and debugging services to fix bugs.

This is a full-time contract role. We use Deel as the employer of record and contract.

Responsibilities Include:

• Work on a team of developers that build services fundamental to the Swiftly platform
• Build and maintain services supporting loyalty features such as rebates, loyalty, coupons, flyers, ads, portal, identity, and search
• Develop and maintain backend services using Kotlin and Quarkus
• Take ownership of the domain from the ground up, from architectural decisions to coding to testing to operations
• Use IntelliJ and Gradle to build and manage project code as part of the team's development workflow with CI/CD using GitHub Workflows
• Collaborate closely with mobile, web, and SDK engineering teams through well-defined service interfaces
• Operate production services, including on-call and incident management
• Collaborate in a fast-paced environment
• Other related duties as assigned

Required Qualifications:

• B.S. in Computer Science/Engineering or comparable industry experience
• 5+ years of industry experience designing, building, and maintaining backend services
• Confidence writing code in Kotlin or Java
• Experience with a modern backend framework (Quarkus, Micronaut, SpringBoot, or similar)
• Strong SQL skills with PostgreSQL
• Experience building and running services on Azure or similar cloud platforms

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with Quarkus specifically
• Experience with NoSQL (e.g., DynamoDB)
• Experience with Kubernetes
• Experience with CI/CD using GitHub Workflows
• Experience with security protocols like OAuth, Firebase
• Startup experience and comfortable working on small remote teams

$7,000 - $8,000 a month The salary range is based on the candidates experience as it relates to the role. Deel is the contract of record.

Working For Swiftly

We are working on a set of problems that require the best in the industry to get right. Our employees are the pillars of the future of the company and they are treated and compensated as such. We're a growing team of experienced industry professionals building an organization that can solve tough problems and values a collaborative environment.

Every Swiftly employee:

• Has demonstrated the ability to work collaboratively in an ambiguous, fast-paced environment
• Takes ownership of their domain from the ground up, from inception through deployment to customers
• Leaves their ego at the door and ensures the best idea leaves the room
• Is always experimenting with new technologies and learning new skillsets

If you've ever wanted to work on a project that blends a gorgeous consumer experience, sophisticated logistics, and scale that rivals the largest technology players, Swiftly is the place for you.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Swiftly is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status.

Swiftly will make reasonable accommodations in compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. Reasonable accommodations are available for qualified individuals with disabilities throughout the subsequent application process.