Principal Software Engineer, Motion
$560-965k
OTE
$300-375k
BASE
+ Offers Equity + Offers Bonus: $0 - $150,000
More information about location
AI-driven time management platform
Open for applications
AI-driven time management platform
21-100 employees
Open for applications
$560-965k
OTE
$300-375k
BASE
+ Offers Equity + Offers Bonus: $0 - $150,000
More information about location
21-100 employees
Company mission
Motion's mission is to solve the problem of focus and deep work through its AI-driven time management platform.
Role
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
- We prefer candidates who are familiar with the Javascript ecosystem and can hit the ground running when they join us. We don’t expect you to know all of our technologies, but enough of them to pick up the rest quickly. Our tech stack: Typescript, Node.js, React, React Query, Nest.js, Postgres, Temporal
What the job involves
- Motion is hiring an experienced software engineer who can make key technical decisions and implement large software projects to help Motion scale the next 2 orders of magnitude. The role may be frontend, backend, or full-stack, whichever suits your background
- We work hard to ensure Motion’s engineering team is one of the highest talent-density teams in the world. We have accomplished in weeks or months what it would take larger teams years to do.
- There are many initiatives on our product roadmap we know will make Motion deliver orders of magnitude more value to customers. As an engineer on our team, you will work on Motion's highest impact projects and have ownership over major parts of the product code
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
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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