Software Engineer, Backend - Remote Eligible

Software Engineer, Backend

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 more than 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.

About the Role:

As a Software Engineer in the FleetFoundation team, you will build scalable APIs and services that are core to Motive's 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 You'll 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 We're 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

United States

$107,000 - $164,000 USD

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.