Motive
Engineering Manager, Backend (AI Dashcam Products)
Job Summary
Motive is seeking an Engineering Manager for Backend AI Dashcam Products to lead the development of fleet safety features and AI-based software. The role involves defining technical vision, managing engineering teams, and collaborating with cross-functional groups, including Data Science and Design. Candidates should have extensive experience in software engineering, system architecture, and team leadership, with a focus on building scalable distributed systems. The position emphasizes driving product excellence through technical innovation, process improvement, and team development.
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Job Description
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.
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About the opportunity:
Motive Technologies is looking for an Engineering Manager, Backend (AI Dashcam Products), who is passionate about building new product features for Fleet Safety and the AI Dashcam software. We need an experienced and ambitious leader who can think architecturally, articulate a compelling long-term technical vision, develop and execute realistic implementation plans, and manage our Engineering team.
- Define and implement a technology vision for building new product features for fleet & driver safety.
- Manage the product and business outcomes of the engineering teams.
- Develop a long-term product roadmap in collaboration with product teams
- Lead technical design discussions by collaborating with multiple teams including Frontend, Product, Design, Computer Vision & Data Science teams.
- Drive the execution, launch, and daily operations of functionalities for internal/external customers at consistently high quality, Introduce and continuously evolve cutting-edge development, release, and operations processes
- Develop, document, and improve best practices and coding standards
- Hire, manage, and develop a diverse team of highly qualified Engineers. This includes providing expert technical guidance, effective coaching and career development
- As needed, contribute to development tasks such as coding and feature verifications to assist teams with release commitments, to gain and deepen an understanding of our codebase and business processes
Qualifications
- Bachelors or Masters in computer science or related field
- 8+ years of experience in Software Engineering or related domains
- 3+ years of experience managing 10+ engineers
- Experience working with high-throughput and low-latency systems
- Experience building high-scale distributed systems
- Have technical depth and breadth in the following areas: agile product development, distributed systems, infrastructure, cloud computing, build tools, front-end engineering, mobile, QA.
- Ability to perform architectural work, including the development of technical designs and definition of requirements based on an explanation of business issues experienced by internal/external customers and vendors
- Proven track record as a nimble and proactive thinker and doer, who thrives in an environment that demands excellence
- A high degree of comfort with short release cycles, owning the full software lifecycle, and deep experience working on a product for public consumption
- Passion for continuous experimentation and learning, coupled with a desire to make things run faster, and better
- Demonstrated success in hiring, managing, motivating, and promoting skilled Engineers
- An opinion on and a solid understanding of what makes for a strong, healthy, and productive Engineering culture
- A track record as a strong individual contributor earlier in your career, with continued interest in rolling up your sleeves and pitch in with coding yourself when needed
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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