Software Engineer, Backend

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:

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 Youll 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 Were 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 Javascript/ 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

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

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

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