Who we are:
Glydways is reimagining what public transit can be. We believe that mobility is the gateway to opportunity—connecting people to housing, education, employment, commerce, and care. By making transportation more accessible, affordable, and sustainable, we empower communities to thrive and unlock economic and social prosperity.
Our mission is to revolutionize transit with a solution that delivers high capacity, exceptional user experiences, unmatched affordability, and minimal environmental impact.
The Glydways system is a groundbreaking network of carbon-neutral, interconnected transit pathways powered by standardized autonomous vehicles on dedicated roadways. Operating 24/7 with on-demand access, it offers personalized and efficient mobility—without the burden of heavy upfront infrastructure costs or ongoing taxpayer subsidies.
With Glydways, we’re building more than a transportation system; we’re creating a future where everyone, everywhere, has the freedom to move.
Meet the team:
The Applications Team, as a part of Software Platform, is instrumental in designing, building, and maintaining the technology that runs both in and for our robots and infrastructure. This team, operating across the entire stack, serves our internal development team, clients and business partners, and interfaces directly with our customers helping to provide the best possible experiences and most impactful interactions. As a part of the Applications Team, you will be writing high performance, cutting edge software that runs on premise, on robots, in the cloud, and in the hands of our users.
Roles & Responsibilities:
- Design, build, test, and optimize modern web applications using frameworks such as React, Vue, or Svelte.
- Design, build, test, and optimize schemas both for relational and NOSQL databases.
- Build and optimize visualizations using high and low level graphics APIs (WebGL, ThreeJS, BabylonJS, D3.js) including authoring custom shaders (GLSL)
- Build and maintain new and existing mobile applications (Android/iOS) using modern web frameworks and associated technologies (Capacitor, React Native).
- Work closely with cloud infrastructure engineers to build and deploy secured web applications for both internal and external customers.
- Help grow and mentor a team of web developers, including documenting best practices, determining reasonable default technology stacks, and proactively applying these lessons into production code.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- Expert level knowledge of frontend languages (JavaScript, CSS, HTML5)
- Expert level knowledge of one or more frontend frameworks, such as React, HTMX, Vue, Svelte, Angular, etc.
- Experience with one or more backend languages, such as NodeJS, .NET, Ruby, or Python.
- Experience with modern graphics APIs and techniques (ThreeJS, WebGL, Shaders, Render Lists)
- Experience with defining schemas, reading from, and writing to one or more Database technologies (Postgres, Redis, Couch, etc)
- Experience with WebSockets and WebWorkers.
- Experience with web native development (Electron, Capacitor, React Native, etc)
- Familiarity with AWS services (EC2, S3, RedShift, DynamoDB).
Glydways provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
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