Software Engineer (AI-First), Fleet Operations

Who We Are SWTCH is pioneering EV charging solutions for multifamily and commercial properties across North America. Since 2016, our team of entrepreneurs, energy professionals, and technologists has been focused on unlocking the social, economic, and environmental benefits of widespread EV adoption. Today, our solutions are deployed in tens of thousands of locations —many of which are low-to-moderate income housing—helping to make clean mobility accessible for all. With an expanding footprint across Canada and the U.S., we're scaling quickly and looking for mission-driven talent to help accelerate our growth. The Role We're building a new fleet management product, and we want to find out what an AI-first way of working actually looks like in practice. Not as a productivity boost layered on top of regular engineering. As the way the work gets done. You'd be the engineer on it, working with a dedicated PM. Our Director of Engineering will be close enough to help with bigger architecture and tradeoff calls without sitting in your day-to-day. This is a permanent role. We're running an experiment in how we build, not on whether to keep you. If we learn the approach has limits, that's still useful, and there's plenty of other engineering work to grow into. You'd own the work end-to-end. The stack is Python, FastAPI and Postgres on the backend, with Next.js on the front. That said, the stack isn't a test. We care more about how you learn than what you've already used. What you'll be doing Designing and shipping the first version of our fleet operations product Owning the work end-to-end: APIs, UI, deployment, monitoring, the on-call rotation Actually using AI tools as your main way of working. Not just code completion. Architecture exploration, testing, debugging, writing docs, all of it Being open about what works and what doesn't, so the rest of the team can learn from what you're finding Working closely with your PM, with customer outcomes in front of every decision Who this is for We're hiring at the mid or senior level. Roughly 3 to 6 years of professional experience, though we're not strict about the number. The work and the compensation will scale with what you bring. A note on the tech stack listed above: it's what we're building with, not a checklist of requirements. We've all used different tools at different points, and we're more interested in how you learn than what you've already touched. You'll probably do well here if: You've shipped backend services in production. We work in Python. If your background is mostly elsewhere (Go, Ruby, Java, Node, you name it), strong fundamentals and a history of picking up new stacks is what we're looking for. You've worked with a modern JS/TS framework: Next.js, React, Vue, Svelte. We're not looking for specialists. You can tell us about a time you picked up something unfamiliar and shipped real work with it. You use AI tools as part of how you actually work, and you can talk about it specifically. What's your workflow? Where does it shine? Where does it fall down? What have you stopped doing because of it? What have you started? You take the unglamorous stuff seriously: logging, testing, docs, deployment hygiene. Not because someone made you, but because you've felt the cost of cutting corners on it. You've owned something end-to-end before, somewhere. At a job, on the side, on a contract. You know what it's like to be the one responsible for the whole thing. You write clearly. You'll be running an experiment as much as building a product, and what you document matters. A few signs this isn't the right role: You prefer to have well-defined tickets handed to you. You think of AI tools as a shortcut, not a craft with its own skills. You ship best when there's a senior engineer reviewing every call. You're attached to one stack and not interested in stretching outside it. What we're testing, and why it matters to you Honestly, we're not sure AI-first will work the way we think it will. That's the whole reason for running this. What that means for you: Your job isn't to prove AI-first works. It's to figure out what's actually true We'll measure you on customer outcomes and code quality, not lines of AI-generated code The patterns you set up (for prompting, for review, for testing what AI helps you build) become part of how SWTCH does engineering If you find this approach has limits, please tell us clearly. That finding is as valuable as the product itself Whatever this project becomes, you'll keep growing as an engineer here What we're like to work with We try hard to be a place where people can do their best work and have a real life outside it. Some things that means in practice: Kind, not nice. Feedback is direct and specific, given early. We don't store things up to deliver at review time Decisions live close to the work. You'll own your tr