Software Engineer, Workforce Management
- Level
- Senior
Not stated in the posting: salary, work type, visa.
Open. First seen 2 November 2026.
About the role
Motive's standard text
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.
Visit gomotive.com to learn more.
About the Role
As a Software Engineer on Motive’s Workforce Management engineering team, you will design, build, and maintain scalable software that helps physical operations teams manage their workforce more effectively. You will own projects end to end, contribute to technical decisions, and solve complex engineering problems with a focus on reliability, performance, and customer impact. You will be supporting one of the fastest growing product lines at Motive. Day to day impact will include building 0->1, maintaining our existing systems, and collaborating with product/design to innovate.
What You’ll Do
- Design and implement scalable, reliable services and product features.
- Own engineering projects from technical planning through delivery and ongoing improvement.
- Identify root causes and resolve complex issues across services and systems.
- Improve the performance, observability, and maintainability of existing software.
- Collaborate with product, design, and adjacent engineering teams to deliver cohesive solutions.
- Contribute to technical discussions, design reviews, and engineering best practices.
- Mentor teammates and share knowledge across the engineering organization.
What We’re Looking For
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
- Strong programming skills in one or more languages such as Java, Go, Python, Ruby, or JavaScript.
- Experience designing and building distributed, scalable, and reliable systems.
- Strong understanding of relational databases, APIs, and software development fundamentals.
- Experience with cloud infrastructure, microservices, testing, and continuous integration and delivery.
- Ability to independently drive projects and make sound technical decisions.
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
Motive's standard text
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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Regarding US-based roles, depending on your role and primary work location, Motive Technologies, Inc. (“Employer”) discloses candidates may be required to execute a non-compete covenant with the Employer. This requirement does not apply to lawyers, interns, or employees working in CA, MN, MT, ND, OK, or where otherwise prohibited by law.
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All job postings are for existing vacancies. Please note; some interviews or new-hire training sessions may be held in person at one of our global offices.
What this role asks for
Particular to this role
Java · JavaScript · Microservices
Rare in Motive's other 55 open postings.
Standard for software engineering roles
Python
Common in software engineering postings at any company.
71% of this description is written for the role. The rest is Motive's standard text, folded away below.
Compared with Motive's other open jobs.
The team: Software Engineering HIRES STEADILY
This role is one of 15 open in Software Engineering. 4 were posted in the last 30 days and the oldest in November: a team that hires all year rather than one being built.
WHAT THE TEAM WORKS WITH, ACROSS ITS POSTINGS
Golang (10 of 15), Ruby (10 of 15), AWS (9 of 15), Embedded Systems (9 of 15), Kotlin (8 of 15), CI/CD (6 of 15), Java (6 of 15)
OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM
- Staff Platform Engineer posted Oct 30
- Software Engineer - Monitoring posted Oct 30
- Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) posted Oct 29
- Staff Software Engineer - Backend posted Sep 18
- Technical Program Manager, Platform Services posted Sep 11
- Technical Program Manager, Platform Services posted Aug 27
- Technical Program Manager, Platform Services posted Aug 27
- Staff Software Engineer, Backend posted Aug 18
- Director, Developer Platform & Experience posted Aug 13
- Director, Developer Platform & Experience posted Aug 13
- Staff Software Engineer - Backend posted Jul 31
- Staff Platform Engineer, AI posted Apr 13
- Staff Platform Engineer, AI posted Jan 23
- Software Engineer - Android posted Nov 25
From the team and dates on Motive's own job board.
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