Senior Software Engineer, Backend

San Francisco, CA - USA

Monthly Salary: $ 161000 - 201000

Posted on: 18 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

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 Senior Software Engineer you will be responsible for designing and building products that will modernize the Compliance Fleet and Driver management solutions for our Enterprise and Public Sector customers to increase productivity 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 Motives success in providing Enterprise and Public Sector solutions but to go beyond using the latest technologies.

What Youll Do:

Collaborate across teams to design deliver and support scalable product features
Make scalable design choices while championing quality and simplicity
Leverage AI tools such as Cursor CoPilot to increase productivity and code quality
Build appropriate monitoring logging debugging for the health of the system
Mentor and learn from the developers within the engineering organisation.

What Were Looking For:

A degree in computer science software engineering or a related field
6 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

This is a hybrid role with the expectation of being in the San Francisco office 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:

United States

$161000 - $201000 USD

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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Required Experience:

Senior IC

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...