Motive
Senior Software Engineer - IOT
Job Summary
This role involves developing and maintaining the IoT platform at Motive, focusing on data ingestion, device management, and cloud services. The candidate will work on building microservices and serverless functions in AWS, improve platform security and reliability, and collaborate with experienced engineers. The position requires extensive experience in software development, cloud architecture, and messaging systems, with a preference for skills like Golang, Kafka, and AWS IoT. Overall, it is a technical role aimed at scaling and securing the company's IoT infrastructure and services.
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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 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.
Visit gomotive.com to learn more.
About the Role:
Come be a part of the emerging and growing IoT Platform at Motive. We are the layer between our devices and all the backend motive services. We are responsible for ingesting all data to and from the devices in a scalable, secure and efficient fashion. We 1/ Present a unified management interface to various types of device hardware; 2/ Ensure that reported data is accurate and meets the requirements of consuming systems; 3/ Operate and improve the platform to meet availability and responsiveness requirements for Motive and our Customers.
Reporting to the Engineering Manager of the IoT platform team, you will work closely with experienced Motive engineers to build new and refactor existing services to connect our fleet of devices to our cloud platform. Initial projects could include building and scaling our messaging pipelines that ingest device published data, improving the reliability, security and observability of our AWS Lambdas and K8s Services.
Responsibilities:
- Implementing Microservices or Serverless functions in AWS Lambda to empower our IoT device and their data
- Building data models and APIs to help manage and maintain our fleet of devices
- Building message pipelines to allow efficient and scalable transfer of data from and to our devices
- Improve the cloud security of our IoT devices and infrastructure
Qualifications:
- 7+ years of experience developing software products and services in a team environment with source control, build management, and automated deployment practices
- 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/coding practices (Golang and/or Ruby on Rails preferred) with confidence and experience in debugging and problem-solving skills
- Good understanding of cloud architecture and application deployment
- Experience with messaging pipelines like Kafka
- A desire to mentor and grow fellow engineers.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Bonus Skills
- Experience with MQTT
- Experience with AWS Lambdas
- Experience with AWS IoT
- Previous work experience at a hardware company
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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