Software Engineer - Platform

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 in the App Architecture team, you have the opportunity to work on core engineering problems around scale, resiliency & reliability and help multiple product teams design scalable distributed systems across varied application needs. We are looking for a strong engineer who has experience working with distributed systems at scale. 

What You’ll Do: 

• Identify and work on the highest impact problems within engineering, lead technical discussions and decisions across multiple backend teams and deliver scalable solutions that can be adopted by those teams. 
• Design and implement high performance, scalable, reliable, and resilient core services that can be leveraged by other product teams to build scalable & fault-tolerant products 
• Develop tooling and automate processes to ensure Motive’s backend works well as a distributed system.
• Help in debugging & solving critical infrastructure issues across multiple backend services
• Provide mentorship, both formally and informally to engineers across multiple teams.
• Articulate a long-term vision for maintaining and scaling the backend systems and the teams running them.

What We’re Looking For: 

• 5+ years of software engineering experience 
• Experience in building highly scalable services keeping in mind reliability, resiliency, testability and observability
• Strong coding skills in one or more languages (like Ruby, Go, Java, Python etc)
• An eye for solving large cross-cutting problems with tooling and abstractions
• Ability to debug complex systems
• A mature understanding of making the right trade-offs between ideal and pragmatic solutions 

Core Tech Stack

• Ruby on Rails
• Go
• Monorepo, Bazel, CI/CD, and test automation frameworks
• Container and container orchestration technologies (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes)
• Service-oriented architectures and related OSS technologies (e.g. Kafka, nginx, Redis, Postgres, DynamoDB)
• Cloud-native infrastructure (AWS)

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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