Key skills
Distributed SystemsJavaScriptNext.jsRuby on RailsRubyRailsLeadership
About this role
Role Overview
- Lead architecture and scalability initiatives across our Rails and Next.js platform
- Improve platform maintainability by helping evolve customer-specific logic into reusable systems and configuration-driven solutions
- Identify and reduce recurring engineering and operational toil
- Improve frontend performance, platform efficiency, and overall system reliability
- Drive technical direction for complex projects spanning multiple product areas
- Partner closely with product and engineering leadership to make thoughtful long-term technical decisions
- Raise engineering quality through strong technical mentorship, code review, and architectural guidance
- Help establish pragmatic engineering standards and scalable development practices
- Work in a small, elite, cross-functional, and dynamic engineering team where your contributions have an immediate and noticeable impact
Requirements
- 8+ years of software engineering experience
- Strong experience designing and scaling modern web applications and distributed systems
- Experience operating in startup environments with significant ambiguity and rapid growth
- Strong technical judgment and systems thinking
- Experience leading large technical initiatives without formal management authority
- Highly organized, self-motivated, and detail-oriented, with exceptional ownership and follow-through
- Comfortable balancing speed, scalability, and pragmatism in a fast-moving product environment.
Tech Stack
- Distributed Systems
- JavaScript
- Next.js
- Ruby on Rails
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.