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 responsible for building products that will modernize the Compliance, Fleet, and Driver management solutions for our Enterprise customers to increase productivity, profitability and more importantly to keep the roads safe. As part of this role you will build scalable infrastructure, APIs/services and work with a team that is passionate and makes an impact on the trucking industry which is the driving force of the economy. We are looking for accomplished engineers to not just deliver products to bolster Motive’s success in providing Enterprise solutions but to go beyond it using the latest technologies.

What You’ll Do: 

  • Collaborate with a cross functional team to design, document, and deliver 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 at scale
  • Build appropriate monitoring, logging, debugging for the health of the system.
  • Provide on-call support for services deployed in production
  • Mentor and learn from the developers within the engineering organization 

What We’re Looking For: 

  • A degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related field
  • 5+ years software development experienceExperience building product infrastructure, distributed systems and data models
  • Experience in Ruby on Rails, Go Lang, Java, Javascript/Node.js 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. 

Please review our Candidate Privacy Notice here.

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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