Software Engineer, Mobile (Android)

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.

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About the Role: 

As a key member of our team, you will play an active part in designing, and managing our next generation Motive Android app. Your expertise will be contributed to redefining our architecture and building a world class offline-first mobile application with an enthusiastic team. We are looking for candidates who have a familiarity with Java and Kotlin, and a good understanding of system architectures (MVC, MVVM, Redux) and a forward thinking mindset aimed at high readability (declarative) code, as well as identifying problems or bottlenecks before they become issues.

What You’ll Do: 

• Develop new features for our Android (Java & Kotlin) Motive App for Fleets
• Improving one of our many existing features, including GPS tracking (Geofencing), Bluetooth and USB comms, Camera APIs, etcWork with product team to refine feature specs
• Communicate with back end engineers about API requirements or refinements
• Help support team to diagnose user problems
• Analyze our user's data to identify bugs

What We’re Looking For: 

• 5+ years experience working on Android apps
• Proficiency in Java, Kotlin, Android lifecycle, custom views, database/persistence
• An understanding of Android UI/UX and application design paradigms
• An appreciation and understanding of automated app testing
• Knowledge in RxJava2, Dagger2 is a plus!
• Knowledge or interest in commercial vehicles/trucking is a plus!

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