Software Engineer, Full-stack or 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 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.

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 on the new Public Sector team at Motive, you will be responsible for designing and building products that will modernize the Compliance, Fleet, and Driver management solutions to help our customers reduce toil, increase productivity, and more importantly keep the roads safe. As part of this role you will build scalable infrastructure, APIs/services, and work with a team that is passionate and makes an impact on the physical economy. We are looking for accomplished engineers to not just deliver products for our customers, but to go beyond using the latest technologies.

What You’ll Do:

• Collaborate across teams to design, deliver and support scalable product features


• Make scalable design choices, while championing quality and simplicity


• Leverage AI tools such as Claude Code, CoPilot, to increase productivity and code quality


• Build appropriate monitoring, logging, debugging for the health of the system


• Mentor and learn from the developers within the engineering organization.

What We’re Looking For:

• A degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related field


• 3+ years software development experience


• Experience building products or infrastructure at scale


• Experience in Ruby, Typescript, Python, Java, Go or similar language


• Experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL

 This is a hybrid role, with the expectation of being in our Toronto, Canada or Vancouver, Canada office 2 days per week.

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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