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 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.
About the Role:
As a Software Engineer, you will be a part of a team who can turn product ideas into reality by designing components and services for new feature developments. You will implement scalable architecture and work with an enthusiastic team contributing to robust projects that will be critical for growing Motive’s customer base. A big part of your goals will be to create custom tools that enhance sales processes, data visibility, and marketing strategies tailored for large accounts, and help implement cost-effective in-house solutions to replace or augment current SaaS products. In this role, you would be expected to constantly evaluate emerging technologies and avail strategic, innovative, and cost-effective solutions that increase the efficiency and reliability of Motive’s assets.
Learn more about our work culture and team members on this profile of our team here.
What You’ll Do:
- Build responsive, accessible, and performant frontend experiences that make safety insights, event timelines, and video playback easy to understand and act on.
- Work full stack to design and integrate APIs, connect data pipelines and services, and deliver dependable user experiences backed by secure, well-tested code.
- Instrument features with telemetry and analytics to measure adoption, reliability, and UX quality, and use feature flags and experiments for safe, incremental rollouts.
- Collaborate with ML and device teams to bring edge detections and rich media to the platform, handling streaming video, large datasets, and real-time updates.
- Improve UI reliability, error handling, and observability so fleet managers and drivers can review events, take action, and complete coaching flows quickly.
- Contribute to engineering excellence through code reviews, documentation, test coverage, and proactive performance profiling.
What We’re Looking For:
- 5+ years of professional experience in full-stack development with a strong frontend focus.
- Proficiency with a modern JavaScript framework like . React, Angular, Vue. Plus solid TypeScript, HTML, and CSS skills.
- Backend experience with one or more of Ruby on Rails, Go, Python, or Node.js, including API design and integration.
- Strong grounding in web performance, accessibility, responsive design, and state management.
- Experience with Git, CI/CD, automated testing, and Agile collaboration.
- Ability to write secure, maintainable, and testable code and to own features end to end.
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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What We Do
Motive builds technology to improve the safety, productivity, and profitability of businesses that power the physical economy. The Motive Automated Operations Platform combines IoT hardware with AI-powered applications to automate vehicle and equipment tracking, driver safety, compliance, maintenance, spend management, and more. Motive serves 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. Visit gomotive.com to learn more.
Why Work With Us
We work hard, with humility and we see our efforts rewarded in tangible ways every day. At Motive, you’ll have the chance to make a difference for the drivers who keep our world moving. We trust each other to do great work because together we can achieve collective goals that reach beyond the physical economy.
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