Software Engineer, Backend

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 nearly 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.

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 nearly 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.

As a Software Engineer on the new Public Sector team at Motive, you will be responsible for designing and building products that will modernize the Compliance, Fleet, and Driver management solutions to help our customers reduce toil, increase productivity, and more importantly 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 physical economy. We are looking for accomplished engineers to not just deliver products for our customers, but to go beyond using the latest technologies.

• →Collaborate across teams to design, deliver and support scalable product features
• →Make scalable design choices, while championing quality and simplicity
• →Leverage AI tools such as Cursor, CoPilot to increase productivity and code quality
• →Build appropriate monitoring, logging, debugging for the health of the system
• →Mentor and learn from the developers within the engineering organisation.

• A degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related field
• 4+ 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

 This is a hybrid role, with the expectation of being in our Toronto, Canada or Vancouver, Canada office 2 days per week.

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: