Swiftly® is building better retail through technology. Our best-in-class platform delivers turn-key solutions to retailers globally impacting millions of shoppers on a daily basis. The digital ecosystem empowers retailers to grow sales and build loyalty, while enabling brands to reach more shoppers through retail media networks. Swiftly’s technology harnesses the power of AI to help retailers build strong digital relationships with customers and deliver amazing sales results.

Swiftly is the first vendor in the industry to connect the digital and in-store shopping experience with a robust ad platform, while deepening insights using 1st party data and analytics. We offer the only system to seamlessly connect with retail customers across the entire shopping journey. With our recent Series B funding round totaling $100M, we are expanding our team with exciting times ahead.

Headquartered in Seattle, Washington, Swiftly is creating the future of retail technology. 

Position Summary

We are looking for a seasoned hands-on Cloud Architect to help us build new functionality into our Swiftly Cloud Register ecommerce engine. This role will report to the VP of Engineering, and will own the architecture for product catalogue, pricing, cart evaluation and fulfillment. This includes defining our extensible public API’s and ensuring that everything “fits together”. You will scope out architecture that is pragmatic, scales incrementally, and is extensible to support multiple customers. Ideally, you have experience architecting cloud native systems on Azure, AWS, or CGP. You will work with multiple small, high performance teams to build big distributed systems and work very closely with product to ensure we're delivering on the complex matrix of customer requirements.

Required Qualifications

• Experience architecting or leading big technical initiatives for multitenant platforms
• A strong background authoring public API's or SDK's
• Proven history architecting cloud-native systems
• Previous work experience in ecommerce
• Excitement to roll up sleeves to seed initiatives, including writing code and doing data engineering to set things on the right path

Preferred Qualifications

• Industry background in brick and mortar retail
• Highly skilled with Microsoft Azure
• Experience with Kubernetes
• Prior work with Kafka
• Coding experience with Kotlin and Java

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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.