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 100,000 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.
Visit gomotive.com to learn more.
About the Role:
As a Software Engineer in the App Architecture team, you have the opportunity to work on core engineering problems around scale, resiliency & reliability and help multiple product teams design scalable distributed systems across varied application needs. We are looking for a strong engineer who has experience working with distributed systems at scale.
What You’ll Do:
- Work on the highest impact problems within engineering, join technical discussions and decisions across multiple backend teams and deliver scalable solutions that can be adopted by those teams.
- Design and implement high performance, scalable, reliable, and resilient core services that can be leveraged by other product teams to build scalable & fault-tolerant products
- Develop tooling and automate processes to ensure Motive’s backend works well as a distributed system.
- Help in debugging & solving critical infrastructure issues across multiple backend services
What We’re Looking For:
- 3+ years of software engineering experience
- Experience in building highly scalable services keeping in mind reliability, resiliency, testability and observability
- Experience with cloud-native infrastructure like AWS with an eye for solving large cross-cutting problems with tooling and abstractions
- Strong coding skills in one or more languages (like Ruby, Go, Java, Python etc)
- Knowledge of service-oriented architectures and related technologies such as Kafka, nginx, Redis, Postgres, and DynamoDB
We are hiring in the following locations: Vancouver, and Toronto. This is a hybrid role, with the expectation of being in the office 1–2 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:
Creating a diverse and inclusive workplace is one of Motive's core values. We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives.
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Our headquarters are located in the heart of the city’s bustling South of Market (SOMA) neighborhood, a short walk from major public transit lines.
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