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Software Engineer, Backend Canada - Hybrid; Hybrid - Toronto

Motive do
Full TimemidHybrid
Toronto, Ontario, CA$125k – $156kPosted April 4, 2026

Salary Context

This role offers $125k–$156k. The median for Mid-level backend roles is $90k–$156k (based on 93 listings). 14% above median.

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Job Description

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 nearly 100,000 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.

As a Software Engineer on the new Public Sector team at Motive, you will be responsible for designing and building products that will modernize the Compliance, Fleet, and Driver management solutions to help our customers reduce toil, increase productivity, and more importantly keep the roads safe. As part of this role you will build scalable infrastructure, APIs/services, and work with a team that is passionate and makes an impact on the physical economy. We are looking for accomplished engineers to not just deliver products for our customers, but to go beyond using the latest technologies.

What You’ll Do:

Collaborate across teams to design, deliver and support scalable product features

Make scalable design choices, while championing quality and simplicity

Leverage AI tools such as Cursor, CoPilot to increase productivity and code quality

Build appropriate monitoring, logging, debugging for the health of the system

Mentor and learn from the developers within the engineering organisation.

What We’re Looking For:

A degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related field

4+ years software development experience

Experience building product infrastructure, distributed systems and data models

Experience with relational and NoSQL databases such as PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, Redis, and Cassandra

Experience building for Cloud Infrastructure such as AWS, GCP, Azure or private clouds

This is a

hybrid role , with the expectation of being in our Toronto, Canada office 2 days per week.

Pay Transparency

Your compensation may be based on several factors, including education, work experience, and certifications. For certain roles, total compensation may include restricted stock units. Motive offers benefits including health, pharmacy, optical and dental care benefits, paid time off, sick time off, short term and long term disability coverage, life insurance as well as 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). Learn more about our benefits by visiting Motive Perks & Benefits.

The compensation range for this position will depend on where you reside. For this role, the compensation range is:

Canada

$125,000 - $156,000 USD

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.

Please review our Candidate Privacy Notice here.

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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