About the role
About the Staff Software Engineer role 🔍
As a Staff Software Engineer on our Platform team, you’ll design, implement, and maintain robust, high-quality backend APIs and services. Your work will directly impact Motion’s core operations and enable teams across the company to leverage our data across multiple product lines.
| Our tech stack: React, Node.js with Express, TypeScript, GraphQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and Azure.
➡️ Explore our Engineering at Motion page to learn more about our team, our work, and how we build together.
What you'd be doing 🛠️
- Scoping, designing, and implementing resilient, performant, and high-quality backend solutions.
- Working closely with fellow engineers to deliver complex backend features and integrations.
- Maintaining and enhancing existing integrations, anticipating future product solutions and making sure our systems scale with Motion’s growth.
- Identifying and resolving errors, performance issues, and devex problems in our codebase.
- Driving engineering advancements.
Sample projects:
- Build a unified API for our insights data to be used by other development teams.
- Store insights and metrics from our data providers at scale.
Our ideal fit brings ✨
- 6+ years of experience building and maintaining large-scale software applications.
- Proficiency with our core stack (React, Node.js, TypeScript) is ideal, though we’re open to adjacent tech.
- Strong experience with asynchronous message queue systems.
- Experience with MongoDB or other document-based databases.
- Solid understanding of data modeling, ETL concepts, and simplifying data architecture.
