Motive
Senior Software Engineer, Backend
Job Summary
The role of Senior Software Engineer involves designing and developing scalable, secure, and maintainable software components for asset monitoring and real-time visibility systems. The candidate will work with cross-functional teams to implement architecture solutions, build APIs, and manage cloud infrastructure across platforms like AWS, GCP, or Azure. Experience with distributed systems, various databases, and programming languages such as Ruby on Rails, Go Lang, or Java is required. The position emphasizes collaboration, system performance, and system health monitoring within a cloud-based environment.
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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.
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About the Role:
As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be a part of the asset monitoring 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 fleets to be able to track everything from trailers down to individual tools at a job site and provide valuable and actionable real-time insights to help streamline operations and increase our customer’s profitability.
What You'll Do:
- Collaborate with several cross functional teams to design and document scalable solutions
- Write secure, maintainable code that powers the platform that provides real time visibility into company’s assets
- Build and make scalable design choices for API interfaces to work across internal and external applications and services Build appropriate monitoring, logging, debugging for the health of the system
- Actively work on our AWS cloud infrastructure
- Mentor and learn from the developers within the engineering organization
What We're Looking For:
- B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science or related field
- 5+ years software development experience
- An affinity for creating software that is extensible, performant, and easy to read
- Experience building product infrastructure, distributed systems and data models
- Experience in Ruby on Rails, Go Lang, Java, or similar language
- 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
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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Motive provides an integrated platform to help improve the safety, productivity, and profitability of fleet operations for the physical economy.
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