Software Engineer I, Core Product
About The Position
We are seeking an entry-level Software Engineer to join our Core Product Team and help build the systems and features that power Motive’s platform for thousands of dealerships across North America. You will work closely with product managers, engineers, and customer-facing teams to develop features that improve the dealer and consumer experience across our websites and internal tools. Expect to work on customer-facing product features, platform infrastructure, integrations with third-party services, and systems that support a rapidly growing multi-tenant platform. This role will report directly to our CTO and work closely with senior engineers across the Core Product organization. The ideal candidate learns quickly, approaches problems with curiosity and ownership, and is excited to contribute to a fast-moving engineering team. They should be comfortable working on both small iterative improvements and larger cross-functional initiatives while collaborating closely with stakeholders across the business. We are looking for someone who enjoys solving practical problems, values clean and maintainable systems, and wants to have a direct impact on the product experience for thousands of businesses and millions of consumers.
Requirements
- An intuition for good design
- 1+ years of React experience
- 1+ years of backend development experience (Ruby on Rails and/or Python preferred)
- Small startup experience (1-20 engineers)
- Highly organized, self-motivated, and detail-oriented, with great follow-through
Nice To Haves
- Experience working on consumer facing projects
Responsibilities
- Build new UI components and customize existing ones to provide flexibility without compromising on simplicity
- Integrate with third party API’s for both backend and frontend use cases
- Work directly with internal and external stakeholders to manage projects
- Shape our core product to ensure scalability and great user experience
- Move the business forward by delighting our customers and our internal teams
- Build robust integrations between Motive products, business systems, and third-party data sources to unlock speed and efficiency
- Work in a small, elite, cross-functional, and dynamic engineering team where your contributions have an immediate and noticeable impact
Benefits
- Motive contributes 100% of the cost of employees' health, dental, and vision insurance premiums. For employees’ dependents, Motive covers 50% of their insurance premiums
- Up to 4% match on Roth or Traditional 401k
- Meaningful stock option compensation
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
