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Software Engineer, Backend

Motive

Motive

Software Engineering
Canada · Remote
Posted on Tuesday, January 30, 2024

Who we are:

Motive builds technology to improve the safety, productivity, and profitability of businesses that power the physical economy. Motive combines IoT hardware with AI-powered applications to connect and automate physical operations. Motive is one of the fastest-growing software companies in the world, serving more than 120,000 businesses, across a wide range of industries including trucking and logistics, construction, oil and gas, food and beverage, field service, agriculture, passenger transit, and delivery.

Motive is built on four foundational attributes; Own It, Less but Better, Build Trust, and Unlock Potential. This has taken our company to great heights, including being recognized by Fortune for Best Workplaces, Forbes Best Startup Employers, and Comparably for our Best Global Culture, Sales Team, Leadership Team, Career Growth, and CEO for Diversity. We’re proud to receive an employee net promoter score of 63 (according to Comparably) which places Motive in the top 5% of companies with 4,000 employees or more.

Today, our team is made up of more than 3,000 employees, located across the world, providing support to a wide range of customers. While most of our employees are remote, many have the opportunity to work on-site at any of our 8 global office locations. Visit our careers website to learn more about opportunities at Motive.

About the Role:

As a Software Engineer, you will be responsible for building Motive Cards for our customers. As part of this role you will build APIs/services that integrate with payment platforms for processing transactions from Motive customers.

We are looking for strong engineers to build our financial stack and deliver best-in-class reliability and performance for payment transactions. This team is responsible for (a) building integration with payment platforms (b) processing transactions with high reliability (c) generating invoice and (d) processing payments from Motive customers.

Learn more about our work culture and team members on this profile of our team here.

What You’ll Do:

  • Build and scale data models and improve system performance.
  • Build and make scalable design choices for API interfaces to work across internal and external applications and services.
  • Ability to quickly learn billing/payment related third party integration like stripe or adyen.
  • Building software that improves the cost of running a service in production, reduces iteration time and helps you and the team make better decisions about how and what we build and try next.
  • Build appropriate monitoring, logging, debugging for the health of the system.
  • Communicate effectively cross functional teams and projects.
  • 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
  • 2+ years software development experience
  • Experience 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

Pay Transparency
Your compensation may be based on several factors, including education, work experience, and certifications. For certain roles, total compensation may include restricted stock units. Motive offers benefits including health, pharmacy, optical and dental care benefits, paid time off, sick time off, short term and long term disability coverage, life insurance as well as 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). Learn more about our benefits by visiting Motive Perks & Benefits.

The compensation range for this position will depend on where you reside. For this role, the compensation range is:

United States
$95,000$140,000 CAD

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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