About Motive: Motive is a website platform for franchise auto dealerships. Millions of consumers use our platform every month. Our mission is to make car shopping great by giving simple, easy-to-use websites to auto manufacturers and their dealers. Motive is growing rapidly, with OEM customers such as BMW, Lexus, and Harley-Davidson — as well as some of the largest auto dealers in the world. We are experiencing rapid growth across the entire business. About our team: The Motive team is dynamic and fully distributed — with a small in-person presence at our headquarters in Oklahoma City. We are driven to create exceptionally designed and engineered products that meaningfully impact the world. We’re a smart, thoughtful team where every member is an owner, deeply invested in the success of the business. If you thrive in fast-paced situations, and you are often skeptical of consensus, you will fit in well at Motive. About the Role: We are seeking an entry-level Software Engineer to join our Core Product Team and help build the systems and features that power Motive’s platform for thousands of dealerships across North America. You will work closely with product managers, engineers, and customer-facing teams to develop features that improve the dealer and consumer experience across our websites and internal tools. Expect to work on customer-facing product features, platform infrastructure, integrations with third-party services, and systems that support a rapidly growing multi-tenant platform. This role will report directly to our CTO and work closely with senior engineers across the Core Product organization. The ideal candidate learns quickly, approaches problems with curiosity and ownership, and is excited to contribute to a fast-moving engineering team. They should be comfortable working on both small iterative improvements and larger cross-functional initiatives while collaborating closely with stakeholders across the business. We are looking for someone who enjoys solving practical problems, values clean and maintainable systems, and wants to have a direct impact on the product experience for thousands of businesses and millions of consumers. In this role, you can expect to: Build new UI components and customize existing ones to provide flexibility without compromising on simplicity Integrate with third party API’s for both backend and frontend use cases Work directly with internal and external stakeholders to manage projects Shape our core product to ensure scalability and great user experience Move the business forward by delighting our customers and our internal teams Build robust integrations between Motive products, business systems, and third-party data sources to unlock speed and efficiency Work in a small, elite, cross-functional, and dynamic engineering team where your contributions have an immediate and noticeable impact We are looking for someone who has/is: An intuition for good design 1+ years of React experience 1+ years of backend development experience (Ruby on Rails and/or Python preferred) Small startup experience (1-20 engineers) Highly organized, self-motivated, and detail-oriented, with great follow-through We would prefer candidates who have/are interested in the following: Experience working on consumer facing projects Compensation: $90,000 to $110,000 in salary. Exact compensation will depend on experience and demonstrated proficiency during the interview process Your compensation will additionally include meaningful stock option compensation Motive contributes 100% of the cost of employees' health, dental, and vision insurance premiums. For employees’ dependents, Motive covers 50% of their insurance premiums Up to 4% match on Roth or Traditional 401k