Software Engineer

*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.

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*Who We Are:*
Motive builds technology to improve the safety, productivity, and profitability of businesses that power the physical economy. The Motive Automated Operations Platform combines IoT hardware with AI-powered applications to automate vehicle and equipment tracking, driver safety, compliance, maintenance, spend management, and more. Motive serves more than 120,000 businesses, across a wide range of industries including trucking and logistics, construction, oil and gas, food and beverage, field service, agriculture, passenger transit, and delivery.

Motive is proud to be a Forbes Cloud 100 company and a 2020 Career-Launching Company by Wealthfront.

*About The Role:*
As a Software Engineer, you will be responsible for building Motive Cards for our customers. As part of this role you will build APIs/services that integrate with payment platforms for processing transactions from Motive customers.

We are looking for strong engineers to build our financial stack and deliver best-in-class reliability and performance for payment transactions. This team is responsible for (a) building integration with payment platforms (b) generating invoice (c) processing transactions and payments with high reliability (d) monitoring and proactively preventing credit and transaction fraud.

*What You'll Do:*

• Build and scale data models and improve system performance.
• Build and make scalable design choices for API interfaces to work across internal and external applications and services.
• Ability to quickly learn billing/payment related third party integration like stripe or adyen.
• Building software that improves the cost of running a service in production, reduces iteration time and helps you and the team make better decisions about how and what we build and try next.
• Build appropriate monitoring, logging, debugging for the health of the system.
• Communicate effectively cross functional teams and projects.
• Actively work on our AWS cloud infrastructure
• Mentor and learn from the developers within the engineering organization

*What We're Looking For:*

• B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science or related field
• 2+ years software development experience
• Experience building product infrastructure, distributed systems and data models
• Experience in Ruby on Rails, Go Lang, Java, or similar language
• Experience with relational and NoSQL databases such as PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, Redis, and Cassandra
• Experience building for Cloud Infrastructure such as AWS, GCP, Azure or private clouds

*About The Role:*
As a Software Engineer in the FleetFoundation team, you will build scalable APIs and services that are core to Motive's success. We are looking for strong engineers to build the platform that will be leveraged by multiple teams at Motive such as Safety, Motive Cards, Assets etc.. The team is responsible for providing a fast, reliable and accurate view of Trips, Drivers, Vehicles and other critical Fleet data.

*What You'll Do:*

• Develop highly observable, reliable, and scalable platform components with a focus on long-term maintainability.
• Design, build, and maintain scalable APIs for both internal and external applications.
• Champion engineering excellence by proactively reducing technical debt and improving code quality.
• Leverage AI tools such as Cursor, CoPilot to increase productivity and code quality
• Collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams to deliver on project goals.
• Actively work on our AWS Cloud infrastructure
• Mentor and learn from other engineers to foster a culture of continuous growth.

*What We're Looking For:*

• B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science or related field
• 3+ years software development experience
• Experience building product platforms, using micro-services and distributed systems technologies
• Experience in modern programming languages. Proficiency in Ruby, Golang, Kotlin/Java is a plus.
• Experience with Relational and NoSQL databases such as PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, Redis, and Cassandra
• Experience building for Cloud Infrastructure such as AWS, GCP, Azure or private clouds
• Ownership and Problem Solving mindset

We are hiring in the following locations:
Vancouver, and Toronto. This is a
hybrid role
, with the expectation of being in the office 1–2 days per week.

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

$121,000—$155,000 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.
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