Staff System Software Engineer

Position Overview

At Motive, we are seeking "Superbuilders" for the role of Staff System Software Engineer. You will be instrumental in designing and developing cutting-edge IoT platforms, transforming ambitious visions into scalable, high-performance solutions. This role offers the opportunity to influence technical stack decisions, shape the company's engineering roadmap, and collaborate closely with the CTO. You will own high-impact workstreams across devices, cloud, and mobile platforms, with the freedom to innovate.

Responsibilities

• Architect and Build: Design, develop, and optimize high-performance software and firmware for next-generation IoT platforms.
• Turn Vision into Reality: Collaborate with executive and product teams to translate abstract ideas into actionable engineering plans.
• Debug and Validate: Troubleshoot and optimize software on complex distributed systems, ensuring security, scalability, and resilience.
• Develop Automated Testing: Create data test-driven end-to-end simulation frameworks to validate system integrity at scale.
• Adopt Cutting-Edge Tools: Leverage AI-powered coding tools to enhance productivity and drive innovation.
• Lead by Example: Act as a technical mentor, fostering a culture of excellence, ownership, and pragmatism across the engineering team.
• Iterate and Innovate: Embrace rapid iteration and experimentation, solving real-time problems and pivoting when necessary to achieve breakthrough results.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in software development, with deep expertise in either device, backend, cloud, or mobile platforms, and familiarity with others.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
• Proficiency in Golang, Kotlin, and C++, with a track record of writing elegant, maintainable, and high-performance code.
• Full Stack and Ecosystem Understanding:
  • Experience in development and dependencies.
  • Knowledge of modern best practices.
  • CI/CD understanding.
  • Cloud-native experience.
  • Security-aware experience.
• Experience working with analytics and observability from client to cloud, including:
  • Snowflake and Redash reporting.
  • Grafana and Datadog metrics.
  • Agent methodologies.
• A proven history of independent, ambitious project delivery in fast-paced environments.
• Ability to rapidly master new technologies and adapt to ambiguity, including distributed systems, embedded devices, machine learning infrastructure, or front-end frameworks.
• A strategic problem-solver who balances technical trade-offs with business impact.
• Strong communication skills, capable of translating complex technical challenges into clear, actionable plans.
• A natural leader with the conviction to push for the right technical solutions and challenge the status quo.

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 gives you complete visibility and control, and significantly reduces manual workloads by automating and simplifying tasks.

Motive serves more than 100,000 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.

Why Join Us?

This is more than just a job—it’s a chance to build the future of IoT platforms.