About the role This is a hybrid role in our Montreal office, three or four days a week. As a Software Engineer, you'll work on the core infrastructure behind Runneth: the VM it runs on and the services that run inside it.
Engineering at Motion is roughly three teams: Platform (cloud infra, DBs, centralised services and APIs), Agent Runtime (the VM layer Runneth runs on, the applications inside it, our harness, and the primitives that the Runneth experience is built on), and Runneth itself (everything customer-facing). In Montreal you'll be sitting with a small tight-knit team of the engineers working on the Agent Runtime working AI-powered features that are core to the Runneth experience.
| Our tech stack: React, Node.js with Express, TypeScript, GraphQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and Azure.
- Explore our Engineering at Motion page to learn more about our team, our work, and how we build together.
- Browse our Engineering Blog for an inside look at the decisions our team is making, the things we're learning, and what it means for us to be building an AI product today.
What you'd be doing - Owning features end to end: understand the problem, make the calls, build it
- Working with the team to provide services and primitives that the Runneth user experience gets built on
- Keeping our systems fast, reliable and secure: integrations, data at scale, performance, and the devex problems in-between.
- Working on a small, high-ownership team that ships constantly.
- AI coding as the default, while holding what the LLMs produce to the same standard as code you wrote by hand.
Our ideal fit brings - Lives in Montreal and wants to be in the office (close to Metro Mont-Royal) three or four days a week.
- Product shipping experience, ideally in a small team where you owned the outcome
- Interested in turning over stones, curious about stuff you've never done before.
- Strong programming fundamentals and production experience in multiple languages. Agent Runtime runs on TypeScript, Node.js, and Rust. You've designed and shipped real systems and care about their architecture. AI writes a lot of our code, so the job is engineering judgment, not output.
- Exceptional communication skills, you can explain the architecture of something you shipped; why you built it instead of buying it, what you'd change, and what happened when it reached users.
- You are able to translate technical issues into clear business impacts, and prioritise accordingly.
- Any background: self-taught, bootcamp, degree, founder. We love talent from everywhere!
- Bonus: you're comfortable with Linux and deep infra.
...and you'll be a strong fit if you align with these qualities:- A strong sense of ownership
- A pragmatic mindset
- Able to prioritise for real customer value rather than polishing every edge
- Comfort thriving in a fast-moving startup where requirements are ambiguous, shift quickly, and clarity isn't handed to you, you create it.
- You enjoy being a strong individual contributor and a supportive teammate. Engineering is a team sport here!
You're probably not the right fit if- You do your best work with structure: a defined spec, a predictable calendar, 2 week sprint cycles
- You struggle to context switch: You can only handle one focus at a time, switching between live issues and your work is frustrating, you tend to ignore Slack.
- You want a steady, predictable pace: a roadmap that's set in advance and mostly stays fixed.
- You'd rather work remotely, or only come into the office now and then.
- You're looking for a leadership role or a specific title
- You're cautious or sceptical about AI, in general or as part of engineering. We're betting hard on agentic coding being the future; if that feels like a mandate rather than an unlock, it won't be a fit.
How to apply 📬We keep a high bar for talent and get a lot of applicants, so we ask for a little more up front.
Along with your resume, send a short Loom that covers:
- Something you built that you're proud of, and which parts you personally wrote
- How AI fits into your day-to-day workflow
- Why Motion?
What you'll love about Motion - Competitive compensation package: We offer competitive compensation, including equity for all employees, health benefits from day one, a monthly health & lifestyle stipend to support your well-being, 20 days of PTO, and a $1,500 work-from-home stipend.
- Growth that speaks for itself: Motion has strong product-market fit, 2.5x YoY growth, second-time founders with deep industry knowledge, and $65M in funding to fuel our momentum.
- Opportunity for impact: As an early team member, your contributions will directly shape the product, team, and the future of the company. If you're excited about building, you'll thrive here!
- Award-winning team: We're a low-ego, high-performing team that was just ranked #19 on G2's list of Best Canadian Software Companies for 2026.
We closed out 2024 with a $30M Series B raise and strong signals from our customers. In 2025, we built the foundational capabilities our customers rely on, setting the stage for what's to come. In 2026, with fresh funding ($65M+ total capital raised), we're building forward from that foundation, taking what we learned to market in a deeply AI-native way.
CompensationThe base pay range for this role is CA$215,000 - CA$300,000 per year.
