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Senior Software Engineer - Backend

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Design and develop software components for new features, collaborating with teams to create scalable solutions for Fleet Safety, while guiding architecture decisions and supporting product feasibility.
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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 120,000 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.

  • 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 120,000 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, you will be a part of a team who can turn product ideas into reality by designing components and services for new feature developments. You will implement scalable architecture and work with an enthusiastic team contributing to robust projects that will be critical for Fleet Safety such as server solutions that interface with best in class Dashcams, tracking critical driving events, and tools for both Safety managers and drivers.

    What You'll Do:

    • Collaborate with a cross functional team to design and document scalable solutions Ability to write secure, maintainable code that powers the platform that connects the world’s trucks
    • Launch and support features that will be used by trucking industry and its partnersLead code reviews and help to guide software architecture decisions
    • Resource for the product team to determine technical feasibility of features.   

    What We're Looking For:

    • 5+ years of software development experience 
    • A degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related field
    • An affinity for creating software that is extensible, performant, and easy to read
    • Strong programming skills in one or more of these languages: Ruby (Rails), GoLang, Java, Python, or NodeJS
    • Solid understanding of relational databases preferably Postgres or MySQL
    • Experience with scaling, troubleshooting, migrations and security of distributed systems
    • Experience with NoSQL databases, AWS, micro services, SOAExperience with CI/CD and version control (preferably Git)


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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The applicant must be authorized to receive and access those commodities and technologies controlled under U.S. Export Administration Regulations. It is Motive's policy to require that employees be authorized to receive access to Motive products and technology. 

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Top Skills

AWS
Ci/Cd
Git
Go
Java
MySQL
Node.js
NoSQL
Postgres
Python
Ruby

Motive Austin, Texas, USA Office

Austin, TX, United States

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