Engineering Manager, Software (Motive Card)

Position Overview

Motive Technologies is seeking an experienced and ambitious Engineering Manager, Software (Motive Card) to lead the development of new product features for Motive Card, focusing on upmarket and enterprise fleets, including fraud mitigation. This role requires a leader with strong architectural thinking, the ability to articulate a long-term technical vision, and the capability to manage an engineering team effectively.

Company Information

Who we are: Motive empowers the people who run physical operations with tools to make their work safer, more productive, and more profitable. For the first time ever, safety, operations, and finance teams can manage their drivers, vehicles, equipment, and fleet-related spend in a single system. Combined with industry-leading AI, the Motive platform provides complete visibility and control, and significantly reduces manual workloads by automating and simplifying tasks.

Motive serves over 120,000 customers – from Fortune 500 enterprises to small businesses – across a wide range of industries, including transportation and logistics, construction, energy, field service, manufacturing, agriculture, food and beverage, retail, and the public sector.

Visit gomotive.com to learn more.

Responsibilities

• Define and implement a technology vision for building new product features for fleet & driver safety.
• Manage the product and business outcomes of the engineering team.
• Develop a long-term product roadmap in collaboration with product teams.
• Drive the execution, launch, and daily operations of functionalities for internal/external customers at consistently high quality.
• Introduce and continuously evolve cutting-edge development, release, and operations processes.
• Develop, document, and improve best practices and coding standards.
• Hire, manage, and develop a diverse team of highly qualified Engineers, providing expert technical guidance, effective coaching, and career development.
• As needed, contribute to development tasks such as coding and feature verifications to assist teams with release commitments, and to gain and deepen an understanding of our codebase and business processes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Engineering or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years of experience in Software Engineering or related domains.
• Experience working in high-throughput and low-latency systems.
• 3+ years of experience managing 10+ engineers.
• 5+ years of experience building high-scale distributed systems for a product company.
• Technical depth and breadth in the following areas: agile product development, distributed systems, infrastructure, cloud computing, build tools, front-end engineering, mobile, QA.
• Ability to perform architectural work, including the development of technical designs and definition of requirements based on an explanation of business issues experienced by internal/external customers and vendors.
• Proven track record as a nimble and proactive thinker and doer, who thrives in an environment that demands excellence.
• High degree of comfort with short release cycles, owning the full software lifecycle, and deep experience working on a product for public consumption.
• Passion for continuous experimentation and learning, coupled with a desire to make things run faster and better.
• Demonstrated success in hiring, managing, motivating, and promoting skilled Engineers.
• A strong opinion on and solid understanding of what makes for a strong, healthy, and productive Engineering culture.
• A track record as a strong individual contributor earlier in your career, with continued interest in rolling up your sleeves and pitching in with coding yourself when needed.

Diversity & Inclusion

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.

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