Backend Software Engineer, Motive

CA$121-155k

AWS

GCP

JavaScript

Java

Redis

Node.js

Postgres

Cassandra

Azure

Ruby on Rails

DynamoDB

Junior and Mid level

Toronto

Vancouver

1-2 days a week in office

Fleet management platform for trucks

Open for applications

Fleet management platform for trucks

1001+ employees

B2BArtificial IntelligenceLogisticsTransportInternet of ThingsSaaS

Open for applications

CA$121-155k

AWS

GCP

JavaScript

Java

Redis

Node.js

Postgres

Cassandra

Azure

Ruby on Rails

DynamoDB

Junior and Mid level

Toronto

Vancouver

1-2 days a week in office

1001+ employees

B2BArtificial IntelligenceLogisticsTransportInternet of ThingsSaaS

Company mission

To connect the world’s trucks.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science or related field
2+ 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

What the job involves

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) generating invoice (c) processing transactions and payments with high reliability (d) monitoring and proactively preventing credit and transaction fraud
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

Our take

Trucking is a huge but fragmented industry that was largely ignored by Silicon Valley until companies such as Motive (formerly KeepTruckin) came along. The integrated fleet management platform acts as air traffic control for trucks, bringing drivers online and into the 21st century.

The company offers both hardware and software solutions to freight companies, allowing them to manage their fleet and keep their drivers safe. One of these solutions is an AI-powered dashcam that detects unsafe driving behavior in real time and instantly alerts the driver.

The platform, which is used by over 120,000 companies, from small businesses to Fortune 500 enterprises, received series F funding in 2022, which is being used to accelerate its investment in AI, expand its product offerings into spend management, and grow its enterprise capabilities.

Freddie

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Insights

Top investors

-13% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (4)

Trustpilot (1.8)

Company

Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)

Jul 2025

$150m

LATE VC

May 2022

$150m

SERIES F

Total funding: $717.3m

Company HQ

Yerba Buena, San Francisco, CA

Leadership

Obaid Khan

(COO)

Studied Political Science and Government at University of California before founding KeepTruckin in 2013.

Shoaib Makani

(CEO)

Studied Government & Economics at LSE. Analytics Intern at Yahoo. Worked for a year at Google as APMM. Went on to work in Business Development at AdMob.

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