Staff Software Engineer, Platform
GoMotive · Hybrid - San Francisco, California
About this role
**Staff 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 drivers, vehicles, equipment, and fleet-related spend in a single system. Combined with industry-leading AI, the Motive platform provides visibility and control while reducing manual workloads by automating and simplifying tasks. Motive serves nearly 100,000 customers—from Fortune 500 enterprises to small businesses—across transportation and logistics, construction, energy, field service, manufacturing, agriculture, food and beverage, retail, and the public sector. **About the role** As a Software Engineer at Motive, you’ll design and build scalable product and platform capabilities that power mission-critical customer experiences, with meaningful ownership from architecture through production operations. You’ll report into an Engineering Manager, help shape technical direction, raise engineering standards, and mentor other engineers—while partnering across product and engineering teams to deliver reliable, secure, and maintainable systems. **What you’ll do** - Design, build, and ship scalable services, APIs, and product features with a strong 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 to meaningful 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. **What we’re looking for** - 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. **Preferred qualifications** - 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. **Pay transparency** Base compensation range: **$189,000 — $236,000 USD** **Equal opportunity** Creating a diverse and inclusive workplace is one of Motive’s core values. Motive is an equal opportunity employer. **Additional notes** - Some interviews or new-hire training sessions may be held in person at one of our global offices. - Applicants must be authorized to receive and access commodities and technologies controlled under U.S. Export Administration Regulations.
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