We are Motive, a website platform for franchise auto dealerships. 

We are seeking a skilled Senior Frontend Engineer with a focus on React and NextJS. This role requires an understanding of modern web technologies and best practices, with a particular emphasis on performance, scalability, and building great products. This role should be particularly exciting to those who like to work on different things and solve deeply technical frontend problems.

About Motive: We are on a mission to make car shopping great. We empower car manufacturers and their retailers with websites that make it fast, simple, and easy for consumers to find their next vehicle. We are growing rapidly, with OEM customers such as Genesis, as well as some of the largest auto dealers in the world. Millions of consumers shop for vehicles on our platform every month. We are venture-backed by firms like Cortado, Armory Square Ventures, and LAUNCH Ventures.

If you think differently than others—or often see things and say, “this could be done better,” you will fit in well at Motive.

In this job, you can expect to:

• Work on consumer-facing applications with millions of users per month

• Work on our dealer-facing website builder

• Work directly with manufacturers and large enterprises on exciting initiatives

• Have direct and meaningful impact on the product

• Design & implement complex UI libraries and components

• Develop frontend best-practices

• Optimize frontend performance and implement efficient rendering techniques

• Set up and maintain frontend testing infrastructure

• Work on AI-powered features and integrate them into the user interface

• Define and implement accessibility standards

• Keep us on the cutting edge of frontend technologies

• Establish methods of analyzing performance

We are looking for someone who has/is:

• An intuition for good design, layout, and information hierarchy

• A UX-first approach to development

• Expertise in the front-of-the-front and back-of-the-front development

• 8+ years of frontend experience

• 5+ years of React experience

• 1+ years of experience working with Next.js in a production capacity (recent strongly preferred)

• Small startup experience (1-20 engineers)

• Highly organized, self-motivated, and detail-oriented, with great follow-through

• General knowledge of accessibility

• Deep knowledge of frontend testing methodologies and tools

• 1+ years of backend experience (Rails preferred)

• Experience working with generative AI models in a professional capacity (desirable)

Compensation:  $150,000 to $170,000 in salary.

• This pay scale is inclusive of various prerequisites and levels of proficiency, and will be further narrowed throughout 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

Work Location: Seattle, WA (Hybrid or Remote)

While Motive is headquartered in Oklahoma City, our engineering team is opening an office in Seattle for hybrid work. Anyone not located in or willing to relocate to the Seattle or Oklahoma City area can work fully remote.