Senior Backend Engineer

About Motion

Motion is growing fast (3x YoY), our product is sticky and we recently raised $30M in Series B funding. We doubled our customers as well as our headcount in 2024, and have just under 60 team members.

But we’re just getting started and we need your help!

We’ve built a new category of software to bridge the gap between performance marketers and creative teams. Our platform combines creative analytics, research, and strategy. Motion is the command center for Creative Strategists.

Our customers are top ecom and DTC brands like Vuori, True Classic, The Farmer’s Dog, HexClad, and thousands more. They’ve used Motion to analyze over $12B in media spend.

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.

Motion is a fully remote company but we work closely as a team. We are looking for someone with heavy overlap with EST (Toronto is a plus!)

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 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
• Proven success working in a remote startup environment.
• A pragmatic approach to tackling challenging problems, with a deep interest in understanding and solving business needs.
• Nice-to-have: Experience in the AdTech industry.

What You'll Love About Motion

• Super competitive compensation, equity, 20 days PTO, full healthcare benefits, work from home stipend
• Fully remote team with 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
• We want Motion’s impact in the “creative-tech” industry to be up there with the 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!

Motion thrived in 2023, and 2024 was a defining year here. We started 2025 with fresh funding and exceptional signals from our clients. On top of this, our founding team has built successful companies before. This role offers an incredible opportunity to get in on the ground floor to help us build a category defining company in the “creative-tech” space.