Senior Staff Front End Engineer, Motion

$270-375k

Offers equity and bonus: $0 - $150,000. Total Compensation: $504,000 - $965,000 (includes equity & bonus). The range listed reflects compensation for U.S.-based employees. For candidates outside the U.S., compensation will be adjusted to align with the local market and cost of living

Senior and Expert level

Remote from Canada, US

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AI-driven time management platform

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AI-driven time management platform

21-100 employees

B2BArtificial IntelligenceProductivitySaaSAutomation

Be an early applicant

$270-375k

Senior and Expert level

Remote from Canada, US

More information about location

21-100 employees

B2BArtificial IntelligenceProductivitySaaSAutomation

Company mission

Motion's mission is to solve the problem of focus and deep work through its AI-driven time management platform.

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Who you are

You are ambitious and always looking for ways to improve
For most engineers, this role will give you the most responsibilities you’ve ever had, while holding you to higher standards than other companies you’ve worked at
Don’t rest on your past achievements — expect to work your hardest and do the best work of your career at Motion
You will receive lots of coaching and feedback that you should seek to grow from
You can take ownership of projects and lead them to completion while dealing with ambiguity and finding the right balance between speed and quality
You don’t need every detail and edge case spelled out for you because you can figure out the goals of the project and fill in the blanks
You are a fast learner and can quickly familiarize yourself with a complex product and code base
You aren’t afraid to tackle any part of the stack or learn a new unfamiliar technology
You are comfortable with the fact that working in a startup means working around tech debt
You have a strong understanding of how you can create the most impact, and don’t get lost in the weeds in details that don’t matter
You’re excited to work on whatever solves the biggest customer problems, not just the coolest technical challenges
You can collaborate effectively with other talented engineers and work well in an environment where the best ideas win
The median engineer at Motion has 9 years experience
You should expect your ideas to get challenged and to learn a lot from your coworkers

What the job involves

Motion is building the first end-to-end agentic work suite for everyday businesses. Unlike point solutions or bolt-on tools, Motion was built from the ground up with AI agents at the core
Our platform already powers project management, documents, sheets, calendars, meetings, knowledge, and communication — and now we’re layering in AI Employees that can autonomously execute work across all of it
What makes us different is that our agents are natively embedded in the platform. They’re not integrations, and they’re not copilots that just suggest things — they actually complete work with full access to data, context, and workflows
In just three months, AI Employees have grown from $0 to eight-figure ARR, and we’re only getting started
With backing from YC and Sam Altman, a $500M+ valuation, and hundreds of thousands of users, we’re well positioned to lead. Now we’re building agents that work with extreme accuracy and unlock an order-of-magnitude boost in productivity
Motion is intense, fast, and not for everyone. We're a great place to focus, learn, and accelerate your career
If you want to work with top talent, push yourself harder than you thought possible, and help redefine how AI gets deployed in the real world, then you’ll thrive here
Motion is undergoing a complete frontend re-architecture. As we scale from a small consumer app to a suite of B2B products, we need to maintain performance and scalability. Example initiatives include:
Implementing a local-first sync engine to keep data always up to date
Supporting offline mode
Splitting up the app into micro frontends
Dramatically reducing time to first paint
And many, many more deep initiatives
This will be a role where you will make long-lasting technical decisions and permanently shape the app
You will work with other staff+ engineers on the frontend and the backend to drive major technical initiatives across the finish line

Our take

Today's fast-paced digital world can make time management feel overwhelming, leading many smartphones to be filled with applications for to-do lists, calendars, and project management tools. The fragmented nature of these apps makes them time-consuming and frustrating to navigate, ultimately making them unsuitable for usage within professional workforces.

Motion provides an all-in-one AI-driven time management platform for businesses, facilitating the automation of daily task planning, task prioritization, and long-term scheduling. The AI technology also automates frustrating maintenance tasks normally associated with productivity apps such as the rescheduling of unfinished work, adding exceptions for weekends or time off, and recognizing when a user is falling behind on their schedule.

Whilst businesses have a plethora of productivity platforms at their disposal, Motion has been smart to apply AI to its software to reduce the amount of time users must spend manually using it. Through this approach, the company aims to bring the benefits of time-management platforms without their pitfalls, ultimately helping to keep workers on track and minimize missed deadlines, without requiring constant manual planning time.

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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

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Top investors

Glassdoor (4)

Trustpilot (3.9)

Company

Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)

Sep 2025

$38m

SERIES C

May 2023

$14m

EARLY VC

Total funding: $65.1m

Company benefits

Motion offers a competitive salary and equity compensation, medical, dental, and vision health insurance

Company HQ

Mountain View, CA

Leadership

Harry Qi

(CEO and Co-founder)

Experience as Quantitative Trader at Optiver from 2017 to 2019. LP Venture Partner at Pioneer Fund since 2020.

Ethan Yu

(COO and Co-founder)

Experience as Software Engineer Intern for Whatsapp and Facebook. Quantitative Trader for Citadel from 2016 to 2018 and for DRW since 2019.

Omid Rooholfada

(Co-founder)

President of Code Haven from 2016 to 2018. Experience as Software Engineer Intern for Facebook and Optimizely.

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