Motive

Staff Software Engineer, Platform

Motive
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Base Salary

$189k - $236k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and ship scalable services, APIs, and product features with emphasis on reliability, maintainability, and performance.
  • Drive technical design and make architecture decisions for new capabilities and improvements to existing systems.
  • Partner with cross-functional stakeholders to refine requirements and deliver high-quality customer-focused solutions.
  • Improve engineering excellence through code reviews, testing, monitoring, logging, debugging, and operational best practices.
  • Mentor engineers, share knowledge, provide technical guidance, and help scale effective engineering practices.

Requirements

  • At least five 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 identifying risks, bugs, and bottlenecks early.
  • Experience mentoring engineers and collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders on complex technical initiatives.
  • Preferred: eight or more years of software engineering experience.
  • Preferred: experience leading technical projects and designing distributed systems.

Benefits

  • Health, pharmacy, optical, and dental care benefits.
  • Paid time off and sick time off.
  • Short-term and long-term disability coverage.
  • Life insurance and 401(k) contribution, subject to eligibility requirements.
  • Total compensation may include restricted stock units.
  • Some interviews or new-hire training sessions may be held in person at a global office.

Tech Stack

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Motive

About Motive

1,001-5,000 employees

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. We serve nearly 100,000 customers, across a wide range of industries including construction, field service, energy, trucking and logistics, and the public sector, among others. Please visit gomotive.com or email us at feedback@gomotive.com for more info.