# Staff Software Engineer, Backend

Hiring organization: [Motive](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/motive)

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/7c423537-bcda-4e29-ab58-1a3eaa91c8d9

Listed on Motive's own careers site. Applications go to them directly.

- Seniority: Staff
- Location: San Francisco, CA
- Salary: 200000 – 235000 USD per year

## Summary

Motive is seeking a Staff-level backend engineer to design and build scalable services and APIs for their fleet operations platform. You'll own systems from architecture through production, mentor other engineers, and work across teams to deliver reliable, secure solutions for customers managing drivers, vehicles, and fleet operations.

_Our summary, not Motive's wording._

## Skills named

Go, Java, Kotlin, Python, Ruby, Swift

## Required

- 5+ years building production systems, platforms, or customer-facing products
- Experience with one or more of: Go, Ruby, Python, Java, Kotlin, Swift, or similar
- Expertise designing scalable distributed systems, data models, APIs, and cloud-native services
- Strong technical judgment and problem-solving skills
- Experience mentoring engineers and collaborating with cross-functional teams

## Nice to have

- 8+ years of software engineering experience
- Experience leading technical projects and designing distributed systems

Apply on Motive's site: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/gomotive/jobs/8706541002