Software Engineer - Backend

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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What You'll Do:

• Collaborate with a cross functional team to design and document 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 and its partners
• Lead code reviews and help to guide software architecture decisions
• Resource for the product team to determine technical feasibility of features

What We're Looking For:

• 3+ years of software development experience 
• A degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related field
• An affinity for creating software that is extensible, performant, and easy to read
• Strong programming skills in one or more of these languages: Ruby (Rails), GoLang, Java, Python, or NodeJS
• Solid understanding of relational databases preferably Postgres or MySQL
• Experience with scaling, troubleshooting, migrations and security of distributed systems
• Experience with NoSQL databases, AWS, micro services, SOA
• Experience with CI/CD and version control (preferably Git)

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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