Lead, Software Engineer Android

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 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.

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About the Role: 

As a key member of our team, you will play an active part in designing, and managing our flagship mobile driver app. Your expertise will contribute to redefining our architecture and building a world-class offline-first mobile application with an enthusiastic team. We are looking for candidates who have a forward-thinking mindset aimed at high readability (declarative) code, as well as identifying problems or bottlenecks before they become issues. We are looking for candidates who have a familiarity with Swift and a good understanding of system architectures (MVVM).

What You’ll Do: 

• Develop new features for our Android (Kotlin) Motive Driver App. 
• Improving one of our many existing features, including GPS tracking (Geofencing), Bluetooth, Camera APIs, etc. 
• Work with the product team to refine feature specs. 
• Communicate with backend engineers about API requirements or refinements. Help support team to diagnose user problems. 
• Analyze our user's data to identify bugs.

What We’re Looking For: 

• 5+ years experience working on Android mobile apps. 
• Experience in Kotlin, Jetpack Compose,, Reactive Programming, or database/persistence
• Experience with Version Control Systems (ex: Git, Mercurial, etc.).
• Good knowledge of software design patterns (MVVM, Clean, etc.). 
• Worked on a couple of Android apps; a plus if shipped to Google Play Store
• Bonus: have mentored junior developers in code reviews and technical guidance
• Creating a diverse and inclusive workplace is one of Motive’s core values. 

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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