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Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Enterprise)

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As a Senior Software Engineer, you will build scalable infrastructure and APIs for enterprise solutions, while collaborating with cross-functional teams and guiding architecture decisions.
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Who we are:

Motive empowers the people who run physical operations with tools to make their work safer, more productive, and more profitable. For the first time ever, safety, operations and finance teams can manage their drivers, vehicles, equipment, and fleet related spend in a single system. Combined with industry leading AI, the Motive platform gives you complete visibility and control, and significantly reduces manual workloads by automating and simplifying tasks.

Motive serves nearly 100,000 customers – from Fortune 500 enterprises to small businesses – across a wide range of industries, including transportation and logistics, construction, energy, field service, manufacturing, agriculture, food and beverage, retail, and the public sector.

Visit gomotive.com to learn more.

About the Role: 

At Motive, we’re not just looking for engineers—we’re seeking Superbuilders. You will be responsible for building products that will modernize the Compliance, Fleet, and Driver management solutions for our Enterprise customers to increase productivity, profitability and more importantly to keep the roads safe. As part of this role you will build scalable infrastructure, APIs/services and work with a team that is passionate and makes an impact on the trucking industry which is the driving force of the economy.

We are looking for accomplished engineers to not just deliver products to bolster Motive’s success in providing Enterprise solutions but to go beyond it using the latest technologies.

What You’ll Do: 
  • Collaborate with a cross functional team to design and document scalable solutions
  • Ability to write secure, maintainable code that powers the platform that connects the world’s trucks
  • Launch and support product facing platform features (including two of our brand new AI features)
  • Lead code reviews and help to guide software architecture decisions
  • Resource for the product team to determine technical feasibility of features.   
What We’re Looking For: 
  • 8+ years of software development experience 
  • A degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related field
  • An affinity for creating software that is extensible, performant, and easy to read
  • Strong programming skills in one or more of these languages: Ruby (Rails), GoLang, Java, Python, or NodeJS
  • Solid understanding of relational databases preferably Postgres or MySQL
  • Experience with scaling, troubleshooting, migrations and security of distributed systems
  • Experience with NoSQL databases, AWS, micro services, SOAExperience with CI/CD and version control (preferably Git)

Pay Transparency

Your compensation may be based on several factors, including education, work experience, and certifications. For certain roles, total compensation may include restricted stock units. Motive offers benefits including health, pharmacy, optical and dental care benefits, paid time off, sick time off, short term and long term disability coverage, life insurance as well as 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). Learn more about our benefits by visiting Motive Perks & Benefits.

The compensation range for this position will depend on where you reside. For this role, the compensation range is:

Canada
$190,000$235,000 CAD

Creating a diverse and inclusive workplace is one of Motive's core values. We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives. 

Please review our Candidate Privacy Notice here.

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The applicant must be authorized to receive and access those commodities and technologies controlled under U.S. Export Administration Regulations. It is Motive's policy to require that employees be authorized to receive access to Motive products and technology. 

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Top Skills

AWS
Go
Java
MySQL
Node.js
Postgres
Python
Ruby

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