Staff Full Stack SW Engineer

HRB; Toronto; On-site; CAD 150,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Work from home stipend

Healthcare benefits

20 days PTO

Job summary

Motion is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for the Platform Team to architect and deliver robust backend APIs and services. You will work with Node.js, TypeScript, Azure, and MongoDB to enable data-driven capabilities across product lines. You’ll influence architecture, drive scalability, and mentor engineers.

Responsibilities include designing high-quality backend, collaborating with teams, maintaining integrations, and solving performance and reliability issues as Motion scales.

Qualifications

• 10+ years building and maintaining large-scale software applications.
• Proficiency in React, Node.js, and TypeScript.
• Experience with asynchronous message queue systems.
• Experience with MongoDB or other document-based databases.

Responsibilities

• Scope, design, and implement resilient, performant backend solutions.
• Collaborate with engineers to deliver complex backend features and integrations.
• Maintain and enhance existing integrations to scale with growth.
• Identify and resolve errors, performance issues, and devex problems in the codebase.
• Drive engineering advancements.

Skills

React

Node.js

TypeScript

Message queues

MongoDB

Data modeling

ETL concepts

Job description

Staff SW Engineer (Platform Team)

About the Role

As a Staff Software Engineer on our Platform team, you’ll design, implement, and maintain robust, high-quality backend APIs and services. Your work will directly impact Motion’s core operations and enable teams across the company to leverage our data across multiple product lines. We work primarily in Node, TypeScript, Azure, and MongoDB - and any other simple tools that get the job done.

Explore our Engineering at Motion page to learn more about our team, our work, and how we build together.

What You’ll Do

• Scope, design, and implement resilient, performant, and high-quality backend solutions.
• Work closely with fellow engineers to deliver complex backend features and integrations.
• Maintain and enhance existing integrations, making sure our systems scale with Motion’s growth and anticipate future product solutions.
• Identify and resolve errors, performance issues, and devex problems in our codebase.
• Drive engineering advancements.

Sample Projects

• Build a unified API for our insights data to be used by other development teams
• Store insights and metrics from our data providers at scale

What We’re Looking For

• 10+ years building and maintaining large-scale software applications.
• Proficiency in React, Node.js, and TypeScript
• Strong experience with asynchronous message queue systems
• Experience with MongoDB or other document-based databases.
• Solid understanding of data modeling, ETL concepts, and simplifying data architecture.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills with a knack for translating complex technical issues into clear business impacts.
• Interest in AI/ML
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment with evolving requirements and priorities
• A pragmatic approach to tackling challenging problems, with a deep interest in understanding and solving business needs.

What you’ll love about Us

• Super competitive compensation, equity, 20 days PTO, full healthcare benefits, work from home stipend
• Incredible offsites and retreats to build camaraderie. Our last retreat was a week-long stay at Lake Muskoka.
• We’ve found product market fit but we’re still so early that you will have a major impact.
• Our team is very ambitious, super capable and low on egos
• Our customers are some of the leading brands and agencies in D2C e-commerce
• Webflows, Canvas and Figmas of the world.
• We have a deep understanding of the problem space through many years of tinkering in the industry.
• We know exactly what it’s going to take for Motion to win.
• We’d love for you to join us on the ride!