Senior Full Stack Engineer (Platform Team)

About the Role
As a Senior 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. We work primarily in Node, TypeScript, Azure, and MongoDB - and any other simple tools that get the job done.

Explore our Engineering at Motion page to learn more about our team, our work, and how we build together.

What You’ll Do

• Scope, design, and implement resilient, performant, and high-quality backend solutions.
• Work closely with fellow engineers to deliver complex backend features and integrations.
• Maintain and enhance existing integrations, making sure our systems scale with Motion’s growth and anticipate future product solutions.
• Identify and resolve errors, performance issues, and devex problems in our codebase.
• Drive 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

What We’re Looking For

• 10+ years building and maintaining large-scale software applications.
• Proficiency in React, Node.js, and TypeScript
• 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.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills with a knack for translating complex technical issues into clear business impacts.
• Interest in AI/ML
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment with evolving requirements and priorities
• A pragmatic approach to tackling challenging problems, with a deep interest in understanding and solving business needs.

What you'll love about ​U​s

• Super competitive compensation, equity, 20 days PTO, full healthcare benefits, work from home stipend
• Incredible offsites and retreats to build camaraderie. Our last retreat was a week-long stay at Lake Muskoka.
• We’ve found product market fit but we’re still so early that you will have a major impact.
• Our team is very ambitious, super capable and low on egos
• Our customers are some of the leading brands and agencies in D2C e-commerce
• Webflows, Canvas and Figmas of the world.
• We have a deep understanding of the problem space through many years of tinkering in the industry.
• We know exactly what it’s going to take for Motion to win.
• We’d love for you to join us on the ride!