Software Engineer, Motive

Cloud Platform

$107-164k

Salary applicable for US based candidates, may vary in other locations

AWS

Python

Java

Kafka

Redis

Postgres

Ruby

DynamoDB

Mid and Senior level

Austin

New York

San Francisco Bay Area

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

$107-164k

Salary applicable for US based candidates, may vary in other locations

AWS

Python

Java

Kafka

Redis

Postgres

Ruby

DynamoDB

Mid and Senior level

Austin

New York

San Francisco Bay Area

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

We are looking for a strong engineer who has experience working with distributed systems at scale
3+ years of software engineering experience
Experience in building highly scalable services keeping in mind reliability, resiliency, testability and observability
Experience with cloud-native infrastructure like AWS with an eye for solving large cross-cutting problems with tooling and abstractions
Strong coding skills in one or more languages (like Ruby, Go, Java, Python etc)
Knowledge of service-oriented architectures and related technologies such as Kafka, nginx, Redis, Postgres, and DynamoDB

What the job involves

As a Software Engineer in the App Architecture team, you have the opportunity to work on core engineering problems around scale, resiliency & reliability and help multiple product teams design scalable distributed systems across varied application needs
Work on the highest impact problems within engineering, join technical discussions and decisions across multiple backend teams and deliver scalable solutions that can be adopted by those teams
Design and implement high performance, scalable, reliable, and resilient core services that can be leveraged by other product teams to build scalable & fault-tolerant products
Develop tooling and automate processes to ensure Motive’s backend works well as a distributed system
Help in debugging & solving critical infrastructure issues across multiple backend services

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.

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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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