Staff Software Engineer, Platform

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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As a Software Engineer at Motive you will design and build scalable product and platform capabilities that power mission-critical customer experiences with meaningful ownership from architecture through production this role you will report into an Engineering Manager and help shape technical direction raise engineering standards and mentor other engineers while partnering across product and engineering teams to deliver reliable secure and maintainable systems.

• Design build and ship scalable services APIs and product features with a strong emphasis on reliability maintainability and performance.
• Drive technical design and make sound architecture decisions for new capabilities and improvements to existing systems.
• Partner with cross-functional stakeholders to refine requirements and deliver high-quality solutions that solve meaningful customer problems.
• Improve engineering excellence through code reviews testing monitoring logging debugging and operational best practices.
• Mentor engineers and contribute to team direction by sharing knowledge providing technical guidance and helping scale effective engineering practices.

• 5 years of software engineering experience building production systems platforms or customer-facing products.
• Strong experience with one or more modern programming languages such as Go Ruby Python Java Kotlin Swift or similar.
• Proven experience designing scalable distributed systems data models APIs and cloud-native services.
• Strong technical judgment and problem-solving skills including the ability to identify risks bugs and bottlenecks early.
• Experience mentoring engineers and collaborating effectively with cross-functional stakeholders to deliver complex technical initiatives.

Preferred Qualifications

• 8 years of software engineering experience building production systems platforms or customer-facing products.
• Experience mentoring engineers and collaborating effectively with cross-functional stakeholders to deliver complex technical initiatives.
• Experience leading technical projects designing distributed systems.

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