Staff Software Engineer - IoT Cloud

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 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.

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Who We Are: 

Motive builds technology to improve the safety, productivity, and profitability of businesses that power the physical economy. The Motive Automated Operations Platform combines IoT hardware with AI-powered applications to automate vehicle and equipment tracking, driver safety, compliance, maintenance, spend management, and more. Motive serves more than 120,000 businesses, across a wide range of industries including trucking and logistics, construction, oil and gas, food and beverage, field service, agriculture, passenger transit, and delivery.

 Motive is proud to be a Forbes Cloud 100 company and a 2020 Career-Launching Company by Wealthfront.

About the Role: 

As a Staff IoT Engineer, you will play a critical role in architecting our IoT platform to ensure its scalability, reliability, and efficiency. You will lead the design and development of components and services, working closely with a dynamic team of platform engineers and collaborating with Product and Embedded engineers, to bring product ideas to life. Additionally, you will mentor engineers and promote industry best IoT practices to ensure our solutions are cutting-edge and maintain high standards.

What You’ll Do: 

• Promote best IoT practices
• Collaborate with a cross functional team to design and document scalable solutions 
• Ability to write secure, maintainable code that powers the platform that connects the world’s physical economy
• Lead code reviews and help to guide software architecture decisions
• Resource for the product team to determine technical feasibility of features
• Build and scale data models and improve system performance
• Build and make scalable design choices for API interfaces to work across internal and external applications and services
• Building software that improves the cost of running a service in production, reduces iteration time and helps you and the team make better decisions about how and what we build and try next
• Build appropriate monitoring, logging, debugging for the health of the system
• Communicate effectively across multiple teams and projects. Actively work on our AWS cloud infrastructure
• Mentor and learn from the developers within the engineering organization 

What We’re Looking For: 

• B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science or related field
• 10+ years of software development experience
• 5+ years of IoT Cloud experience
• 3+ years of MQTT experience
• An affinity for creating software that is extensible, performant, and easy to read
• Strong programming skills in one or more of these languages: Ruby (Rails), GoLang, Java, Python, or NodeJSExperience with relational and NoSQL databases such as PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, Redis, and Cassandra
• Experience with scaling, troubleshooting, migrations and security of distributed systems
• Experience building for Cloud Infrastructure such as AWS, GCP, Azure or private cloudsExperience with CI/CD and version control (preferably Git)