Senior Software Engineer, Backend - Vancouver, Canada

Who We Are: 

Motive is on a mission to modernize the trucking industry. With the leading fleet management platform, we are bringing trucks online and fundamentally changing the way freight is moved on our roads. 

We see our hard work rewarded in tangible ways every day and we believe that intelligence is most powerful when paired with humility. We’re motivated by the opportunity to impact and improve every facet of a trillion-dollar industry that touches everyone’s lives. Motive is proud to be a Forbes Cloud 100 company and a 2020 Career-Launching Company by Wealthfront. 

About the Role:

As a Software Engineer, you will be responsible for building Motive Cards for our customers. As part of this role you will build  APIs/services that integrate with payment platforms for processing transactions from Motive customers.  

We are looking for strong engineers to build our financial stack and deliver best-in-class reliability and performance for payment transactions. This team is responsible for (a) building integration with payment platforms (b) processing transactions with high reliability (c) generating invoice and (d) processing payments from Motive customers. 

Learn more about our work culture and team members on this profile of our team here.

What You’ll Do: 

• Build and scale data models and improve system performance.
• Build and make scalable design choices for API interfaces to work across internal and external applications and services.
• Ability to quickly learn billing/payment related third party integration like stripe or adyen. 
• Building software that improves the cost of running a service in production, reduces iteration time and helps you and the team make better decisions about how and what we build and try next. 
• Build appropriate monitoring, logging, debugging for the health of the system.
• Communicate effectively cross functional teams and projects.
• Actively work on our AWS cloud infrastructure
• Mentor and learn from the developers within the engineering organization 

What We’re Looking For:

• B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science or related field
• 1+ 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

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.