gomotive

Software Engineer, Backend

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At a Glance

Location
Canada - Hybrid; Canada - Vancouver; Hybrid - Toronto
Experience
4+ years
Department
Software Engineering
Posted
2026-03-18T17:37:56-04:00

Key Requirements

Required Skills

AWSAzureGCPJavaJavaScriptNode.jsPostgreSQLRedisRuby

Domain Knowledge

  • Cloud
  • Engineering

Requirements

4+ years software development experience

Experience building product infrastructure, distributed systems and data models

Experience in Ruby on Rails, Go Lang, Java, Javascript/Node.js or similar language

Experience with relational and NoSQL databases such as PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, Redis, and Cassandra

Experience building for Cloud Infrastructure such as AWS, GCP, Azure or private clouds

Responsibilities

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.

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 Cursor, CoPilot to increase productivity and code quality

About the Company

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.

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gomotive.com

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