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 more than 120,000 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 an Engineering Manager, you will lead and mentor a team of skilled software engineers, ensuring the successful delivery of projects and fostering a culture of collaboration and innovation. This role requires strong leadership, technical expertise, and a commitment to driving excellence in software development specifically supporting our Enterprise organization.
What You’ll Do:
- Team Leadership: Lead, mentor, and manage a team of software engineers, fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and high performance. Provide guidance on technical challenges, career development, and performance improvement.
- Project Management: Oversee the planning and execution of software engineering projects, ensuring alignment with business goals and objectives. Define project objectives, scope, and deliverables, and monitor progress to meet deadlines.
- Technical Direction: Provide technical leadership and guidance to the engineering team, ensuring adherence to best practices and coding standards. Collaborate with architects and senior engineers to define and implement technical strategies.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Collaborate with product managers, quality assurance, and other stakeholders to ensure effective coordination across different functions.Drive communication channels to address project-related challenges and provide solutions.
- Innovation and Continuous Improvement: Encourage a culture of innovation within the engineering team, promoting the exploration of new technologies and methodologies. Drive continuous improvement initiatives, identifying areas for optimization and enhancement.
- Resource Management: Optimize resource allocation, ensuring the efficient use of talent and expertise. Address resource constraints and bottlenecks to maintain project timelines.
- Quality Assurance: Oversee the quality assurance process to ensure the delivery of high-quality software products.Implement testing and validation processes to meet quality standards.Stakeholder Communication: Provide regular updates to key stakeholders on project status, achievements, and challenges.
What We’re Looking For:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field; advanced degree is a plus.
- 8+ years of progressive experience in software engineering, with at least 2 years in a leadership role
- Proven success in leading and delivering complex backend software engineering projects.
- Strong understanding of software development processes and methodologies
- Excellent leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills.
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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The applicant must be authorized to receive and access those commodities and technologies controlled under U.S. Export Administration Regulations. It is Motive's policy to require that employees be authorized to receive access to Motive products and technology.
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What We Do
Motive builds technology to improve the safety, productivity, and profitability of businesses that power the physical economy. The Motive Automated Operations Platform combines IoT hardware with AI-powered applications to automate vehicle and equipment tracking, driver safety, compliance, maintenance, spend management, and more. Motive serves more than 120,000 businesses, across a wide range of industries including trucking and logistics, construction, oil and gas, food and beverage, field service, agriculture, passenger transit, and delivery. Visit gomotive.com to learn more.
Why Work With Us
We work hard, with humility and we see our efforts rewarded in tangible ways every day. At Motive, you’ll have the chance to make a difference for the drivers who keep our world moving. We trust each other to do great work because together we can achieve collective goals that reach beyond the physical economy.
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