Flighty Careers
Sr. Full Stack Engineer
About Flighty
Flighty is the award-winning flight tracker trusted by frequent flyers, aviation nerds, and anxious travelers alike. We deliver real-time status, delay predictions, and beautiful visualizations that often beat the airline to the punch. Flighty is an Apple Design Award winner and App of the Year finalist, with a 4.8+ rating.
We are a tiny, elite, product-obsessed team distributed across the world. Our team spans 7 countries. We care deeply about details, honesty in our data, and shipping features that genuinely reduce stress for travelers.
We’re hiring a Senior Full Stack Engineer who can ship beautiful iOS experiences and build the backend systems that make them hum.
You’ll work side by side with a designer and the founding team to own features end-to-end, from shaping the problem and defining the technical approach to shipping, measuring, and iterating.
If you want a backlog of tickets or can’t make and defend your decisions, this is not that job.
This role is ideal for you if…
You want to own the whole thing: client, API, data, rollout.
You care about product craft as much as system design.
You’ve worked on scaled products with high stakes.
You have strong opinions about what “good” looks like and you can execute.
You get excited about crafting intuitive useful features from messy, incomplete, and deeply complex worldwide data.
You like working directly with design and iterating until it’s right.
You prefer small teams with high standards over big orgs with process for process’s sake.
You want your work to matter in the stressful moments when travelers need answers.
What you'll do
Own end-to-end features: idea shaping → technical design → implementation → rollout → iteration.
Ship polished UI in close collaboration with design.
Design and build APIs and services for real-time tracking, delay prediction, and notifications at scale.
Turn messy, inconsistent aviation data into simple, reliable user experiences.
Raise the bar on performance and reliability across the stack (latency, crash rate, uptime, observability).
Spot problems before they become problems, then fix them.
Make architecture decisions that balance speed, pragmatism, and long-term maintainability.
What success looks like
In the first 30 days:
You understand how our iOS app, backend, and data providers fit together.
You ship meaningful improvements without needing hand-holding.
You’ve internalized our product philosophy and quality bar.
In the first 90 days:
You’ve owned and shipped a feature end-to-end.
You’ve shipped at least one structural improvement (performance, reliability, or maintainability).
You make strong product and technical trade-offs with minimal oversight.
You’ve earned trust through quality, clarity, and ownership.
What we're looking for
Must-have:
Deep curiosity about aviation and travel. You want to understand the real-world systems behind what you’re building.
6+ years production experience in iOS (Swift, SwiftUI, UIKit) and backend systems (Kotlin/JVM preferred).
Proven end-to-end ownership: you’ve designed, shipped, and operated features that required changes in the app and the API.
Strong SQL skills and experience with at least one NoSQL datastore.
Strong product intuition. You care about UX, not just correctness.
Comfort with ambiguity. You can ramp fast and figure it out.
Good judgment about trade-offs: speed vs. perfection, abstraction vs. clarity.
Self-directed, reliable, and comfortable working independently in a remote-first team.
Willingness to occasionally travel for team off-sites.
Clear written communication in English.
Located in European or US Eastern/Central time zones for real daily overlap.
You can be the technical owner. There is no “other team” to throw it over the wall to.
Our tech:
Swift (90% SwiftUI / 10% UIKit), Composable Architecture.
Kotlin, Postgres, Cassandra, NATS.
What we offer
Top quartile salary.
Generous performance-based bonus.
Fully remote work.
Whatever hardware and software you need.
Generous, flexible paid time off.
Health insurance (US).
Annual worldwide team retreat.
The chance to shape an award-winning product that millions of travelers rely on.
How to apply
Please email [email protected] using the job title as your subject line. Please include your name, where you live, LinkedIn profile, a portfolio website (if relevant), your resume, and details on why you want to join Flighty.
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Come be part of an award-winning team
Apple Design Award
Winner 2023
App of the Year
Finalist 2023
