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Motive

Field operations safety and productivity software

Staff Software Engineer - Backend

Backend EngineeringConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeSan Francisco, CA, USAHybrid

About the Job

Requirements

  • At least 5 years of software engineering experience building production systems, platforms, or customer-facing products.
  • Strong experience with one or more modern programming languages such as Go, Ruby, Python, Java, Kotlin, Swift, or similar.
  • Proven experience designing scalable distributed systems, data models, APIs, and cloud-native services.
  • Strong technical judgment and problem-solving skills, including the ability to identify risks, bugs, and bottlenecks early.
  • Experience mentoring engineers and collaborating effectively with cross-functional stakeholders to deliver complex technical initiatives.

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and ship scalable services, APIs, and product features with emphasis on reliability, maintainability, and performance.
  • Drive technical design and make sound architecture decisions for new capabilities and improvements to existing systems.
  • Partner with cross-functional stakeholders to refine requirements and deliver high-quality solutions that solve customer problems.
  • Improve engineering excellence through code reviews, testing, monitoring, logging, debugging, and operational best practices.
  • Mentor engineers and contribute to team direction by sharing knowledge, providing technical guidance, and helping scale effective engineering practices.

Desired Qualifications

  • At least 8 years of software engineering experience building production systems, platforms, or customer-facing products.
  • Experience mentoring engineers and collaborating effectively with cross-functional stakeholders to deliver complex technical initiatives.
  • Experience leading technical projects and designing distributed systems.

About the Company

Motive

Field operations safety and productivity software

Motive creates software and tools designed to improve safety, productivity and profitability for businesses that drive the physical economy. Its customers include more than 120,000 companies across industries such as construction, field service, agriculture, trucking and logistics, and delivery. The product line focuses on helping these businesses run more efficiently by coordinating operations and people, with an emphasis on delivering user-friendly solutions that customers love. Motive differentiates itself through its broad industry reach, a strong commitment to customer satisfaction, and a culture that supports employees in doing their best work. The company’s goal is to empower millions of physical economy businesses to operate more safely and efficiently while growing their profitability.

Company size
5,001-10,000
Company stage
Growth Equity (Venture Capital)
Total funding
$1.9B
Headquarters
San Francisco, CA
Founded
2013

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