Software Engineer, Backend

Motive; Toronto, Vancouver; Hybrid; CAD 101,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A technology company in Vancouver seeks a Software Engineer to build payment integration services and improve system performance. Responsibilities include scaling data models, developing API interfaces, and mentoring team members. Ideal candidates have 2+ years of experience in software development with knowledge of AWS and various databases. Competitive salary between $101,000 to $120,000 CAD is offered, along with comprehensive benefits.

Benefits

Health benefits

Paid time off

401(k) contribution

Qualifications

• 2+ years software development experience.
• Ability to quickly learn billing/payment related third party integration.
• Experience building product infrastructure, distributed systems and data models.

Responsibilities

• Build and scale data models and improve system performance.
• Build scalable design choices for API interfaces.
• Mentor and learn from developers within the engineering organization.

Skills

Software development experience

Building product infrastructure

Experience with relational databases

Building for Cloud Infrastructure

Distributed systems

Education

B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science

Tools

PostgreSQL

DynamoDB

Redis

Cassandra

AWS

Job description

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 nearly 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.

Job Overview

As a Software Engineer, you will be responsible for building Motive Cards for our customers, including APIs/services that integrate with payment platforms for processing transactions from Motive customers. We are looking for strong engineers to build our financial stack and deliver best‑in‑class reliability and performance for payment transactions.

What You’ll Do

• 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.
• Ability to quickly learn billing/payment related third party integration like Stripe or Adyen.
• Build software that improves the cost of running a service in production, reduces iteration time, and helps the team make better decisions about what we build.
• Build appropriate monitoring, logging, debugging for the health of the system.
• Communicate effectively cross‑functional teams and projects.
• Actively work on our AWS cloud infrastructure.
• Mentor and learn from developers within the engineering organization.

What We’re Looking For

• B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science or related field.
• 2+ years software development experience.
• Experience building product infrastructure, distributed systems and data models.
• Experience with relational and NoSQL databases such as PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, Redis, and Cassandra.
• Experience building for Cloud Infrastructure such as AWS, GCP, Azure or private clouds.

Pay Transparency

Compensation may be based on several factors, including education, work experience, and certifications. For certain roles, total compensation may include restricted stock units. Motive offers benefits including health, pharmacy, optical and dental care benefits, paid time off, sick time off, short term and long term disability coverage, life insurance, as well as 401(k) contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). Learn more about our benefits by visiting Motive Perks & Benefits.

The compensation range for this position will depend on where you reside. For this role, the compensation range is Canadian:

• $101,000 - $120,000 CAD

EEO Statement

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.