Software Engineer - Backend / Canada

Motive; Vancouver; Remote; CAD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A technology company in Metro Vancouver is seeking a Software Engineer to build APIs for financial services. The ideal candidate will have 2+ years of software development experience and a strong background in integration projects. This role involves improving system performance and monitoring, alongside mentoring engineers in a diverse team. The company emphasizes inclusivity and offers a remote work arrangement.

Responsibilities

• Build and scale data models and improve system performance.
• Build scalable API interfaces for internal and external applications.
• Integrate with billing/payment platforms like Stripe or Adyen.
• Improve cost efficiency of services in production.
• Implement monitoring and logging for system health.
• Communicate effectively with cross-functional teams.
• Work on AWS cloud infrastructure.
• Mentor and guide developers in the engineering team.

Skills

Software development

API integration

Problem-solving

Cloud infrastructure

Mentoring

Education

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

Tools

Ruby on Rails

Go Lang

Java

JavaScript/Node.js

PostgreSQL

DynamoDB

Redis

Cassandra

Job description

About Motive

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.

Visit gomotive.com to learn more.

About the Role

As a Software Engineer, you will be responsible for building Motive Cards for our customers. As part of this role you will build 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. This team is responsible for (a) building integration with payment platforms (b) generating invoice (c) processing transactions and payments with high reliability (d) monitoring and proactively preventing credit and transaction fraud.

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.
• 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 cross functional 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
• 2+ years software development experience
• Experience building product infrastructure, distributed systems and data models
• Experience in Ruby on Rails, Go Lang, Java, Javascript/Node.js or similar language
• 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

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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