Lead, Software Engineer Frontend

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.

Visit gomotive.com to learn more.

About the Role:

As a Lead Software Engineer in the Marketing team, you will have an amazing opportunity to shape the way we develop our marketing & growth presence on the web - including Motive's official website, marketing campaigns and growth & engagement use cases within the Motive WebApp. We are looking for collaborative individuals with a strong frontend engineering background and a nuanced user first mindset. You would be in close collaboration with various internal stakeholders. You would be responsible for engineering the experience of growth use cases being put out by the business. In this role, you would be expected to constantly evaluate emerging technologies and avail strategic, innovative, and cost-effective solutions that increase the efficiency and reliability of Motive's web assets.

What You'll Do:

• Responsive, standards-compliant JavaScript, HTML5 and CSS3 front-end development
• Create software that is extensible, performant, and easy to read
• Work on modern web frameworks and tools as part of a tightly knit Growth Engineering team
• Work with designers to build highly usable and performant UIs
• Contribute towards code reviews and processing of tech debt
• Wordpress block, plugin, and theme development using React and php. You'd be expected to contribute to add functionality and design elements to our Motive website
• Develop responsive and robust email templates
• Technical documentation & project effort estimation
• Lead small to medium sized projects with complete end to end ownership, along with outward communication and stakeholder management
• Data driven conversion rate optimization of user acquisition funnels

What We're Looking For:

• Ideally, 4+ years of frontend engineering experience
• JavaScript, HTML & CSS skills with comprehensive understanding of web standards and responsive design techniques
• Experience working with at least one modern web framework such as Angular 2+, React, etc
• Understanding of jQuery and other JavaScript libraries in general
• Experience with version control systems (Github, Gitlab, Bitbucket etc.) 
• Comfortable using CSS preprocessors such as Sass/Less
• Strong communication skills with a user first attitude

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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