Product Engineering Leader

Empowering Businesses with Innovative Solutions

Motive empowers businesses to improve their operational efficiency and productivity. Our platform provides a comprehensive solution for managing drivers, vehicles, equipment, and fleet-related spend in a single system.

The Motive platform combines industry-leading AI with complete visibility and control, significantly reducing manual workloads by automating and simplifying tasks.

We serve more than 120,000 customers – from Fortune 500 enterprises to small businesses – across various industries, including transportation and logistics, construction, energy, field service, manufacturing, agriculture, food and beverage, retail, and the public sector.

• Define and implement a technology vision for building new product features for fleet & driver safety.
• Manage the product and business outcomes of the engineering teams.
• Develop a long-term product roadmap in collaboration with product teams.
• Lead technical design discussions by collaborating with multiple teams including Frontend, Product, Design, Computer Vision & Data Science teams.
• Drive the execution, launch, and daily operations of functionalities for internal/external customers at consistently high quality, Introduce and continuously evolve cutting-edge development, release, and operations processes.
• Develop, document, and improve best practices and coding standards.
• Hire, manage, and develop a diverse team of highly qualified Engineers. This includes providing expert technical guidance, effective coaching, and career development.
• As needed, contribute to development tasks such as coding and feature verifications to assist teams with release commitments, to gain and deepen an understanding of our codebase and business processes.

To excel in this role, you should have:

• Bachelor's or Master's in computer science or related field.
• 8+ years of experience in Software Engineering or related domains.
• Experience working in high-throughput and low-latency systems.
• 3+ years of experience managing 10+ engineers.
• 5+ years experience in building high-scale distributed systems for a product company.
• Technical depth and breadth in agile product development, distributed systems, infrastructure, cloud computing, build tools, frontend engineering, mobile, QA.
• Able to perform architectural work, including the development of technical designs and definition of requirements based on an explanation of business issues experienced by internal/external customers and vendors.
• Nimble and proactive thinker and doer who thrives in an environment that demands excellence.
• High degree of comfort with short release cycles, owning the full software lifecycle, and deep experience working on a product for public consumption.
• Passion for continuous experimentation and learning, coupled with a desire to make things run faster, and better.
• Demonstrated success in hiring, managing, motivating, and promoting skilled Engineers.
• Opinion on and a solid understanding of what makes for a strong, healthy, and productive Engineering culture.
• Track record as a strong individual contributor earlier in your career, with continued interest in rolling up your sleeves and pitching in with coding yourself when needed.

This is an opportunity to join a dynamic and innovative company that values diversity, inclusivity, and teamwork. As part of our team, you will enjoy:

Creating a diverse and inclusive workplace is one of our core values. We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and perspectives.

Please note that applicants must be authorized to receive access to certain commodities and technologies controlled under U.S. Export Administration Regulations.