Software Engineer, BackendFleet

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 in the FleetFoundation team you will build scalable APIs and services that are core to Motives 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 Youll 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 Were 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: San Francisco Seattle Vancouver and Toronto. This is a hybrid role with the expectation of being in the office 12 days per week.

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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