Staff 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 100000 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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• About the Role:

  At Motive were not just looking for engineerswere seeking Superbuilders. As a Staff System Software Engineer you will be at the forefront of designing and developing cutting-edge IoT platforms turning ambitious visions into scalable high-performance solutions. You thrive on solving complex technical challenges mastering new technologies on the fly and delivering pragmatic solutions that drive impact at scale.

  This role offers the opportunity to influence technical stack decisions shape the companys engineering roadmap and work closely with the CTO. You will engage in high-impact workstreams with the freedom to innovate taking ownership of projects across devices cloud and mobile platforms. If you are a self-starter with a data-driven mindset and an obsession for excellence this is the role for you.

  What Youll Be Doing:

  • Architect and Build: Design develop and optimize high-performance software and firmware for next-gen IoT platforms.
  • Turn Vision into Reality: Collaborate with executive and product teams to translate abstract ideas into actionable engineering plans.
  • Debug and Validate: Troubleshoot and optimize software on complex distributed systems ensuring security scalability and resilience.
  • Develop Automated Testing: Create data test driven end to end simulation frameworks to validate system integrity at scale.
  • Adopt Cutting-Edge Tools: Leverage AI-powered coding tools to enhance productivity and drive innovation.
  • Lead by Example: Act as a technical mentor fostering a culture of excellence ownership and pragmatism across the engineering team.
  • Iterate and Innovate: Embrace rapid iteration and experimentation solving real-time problems and pivoting when necessary to achieve breakthrough results.

  What Were Looking For:

  • 8 years of experience in software development with deep expertise in either device backend cloud or mobile platforms and familiarity with others.
  • Bachelors degree in Computer Science Electrical Engineering or a related field.
  • Proficiency in Golang Kotlin and C with a track record of writing elegant maintainable and high-performance code.
  • Full Stack and Ecosystem understanding - from development and dependencies modern best practices to CI/CD understanding cloud-native and security-aware experience.
  • Experience working with analytics and observability from client to cloud such as Snowflake and Redash reporting Grafana and Datadog metrics and agent methodologies.
  • A proven history of independent ambitious project delivery in fast-paced environments.
  • Ability to rapidly master new technologies and adapt to ambiguity whether its distributed systems including embedded devices machine learning infrastructure or front-end frameworks.
  • A strategic problem-solver who balances technical trade-offs with business impact.
  • Strong communication skills capable of translating complex technical challenges into clear actionable plans.
  • A natural leader with the conviction to push for the right technical solutions and challenge the status quo.

  Why Join Us

  This is more than just a jobits a chance to build the future of IoT platforms at scale. Youll work on the toughest technical challenges with high visibility and impact shaping the engineering direction of Motive. If youre a Superbuildera technical powerhouse who thrives under pressure learns on the fly and delivers game-changing solutionswe want to talk. Lets build something extraordinary together.

We are hiring in the following locations: San Francisco Seattle Vancouver and Toronto. This is a hybrid role with the expectation of being in the office 12 days per week.

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