Technical Founder / Founding Engineer

Job not on LinkedIn

🔥 16 minutes ago

🌐 United States, Canada – Remote

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⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🖥 Software Engineer

Where this job comes from

Posted on Motion's careers page, not through a job board

First seen by Remote Rocketship 16 minutes ago

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Motion

5001 - 10000 employees

🤝 B2B

📦 Logistics

🏭 Manufacturing

B2B • Logistics • Manufacturing

Motion is a U. S. -based industrial distributor (Motion Industries, Inc. ) that supplies maintenance, repair and operations (MRO) products and services to businesses. The company's website emphasizes categories such as bearings, hose & fittings, power transmission, pneumatics, seals & gaskets, electrical, facility maintenance, material handling, tools & testing instruments, safety/PPE and related industrial supplies. Motion also offers B2B features and services including business accounts, approval routing, quick quotes, onsite solutions, repair & services, automation and supply-chain support; it operates an online ordering presence and lists a Birmingham, AL headquarters and 24/7 support.

📋 Description

• Ship features across Motion's AI-native creative strategy platform • Understand problems, make product decisions, build solutions, and own outcomes • Work on a small, high-ownership, cross-functional team • Ship to production in the first week • Own a significant initiative in the first month • Improve AI usage and systems across the technology stack • Remove impediments and execute in a fast-moving startup environment • Contribute across Platform, Harness, or customer-facing Runneth engineering teams

🎯 Requirements

• Technical founder, co-founder, or one of the first engineers at a startup • Personally wrote a meaningful share of the code recently • Years of product shipping experience, ideally in a small team with outcome ownership • Ability to explain architecture, design decisions, tradeoffs, and system integration • Comfort building without a specification • Experience with React, Node.js with Express, TypeScript, GraphQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and Azure • Self-taught, bootcamp, or degree background accepted • Must be comfortable with AI and agentic coding • Individual contributor orientation rather than seeking a leadership-title role

🏖️ Benefits

• Equity for all employees • Health benefits from day one • Monthly health & lifestyle stipend • 20 days of PTO • $1,500 work-from-home stipend • Optional hybrid work through office spaces in Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, and Porto • In-person team week every two months • Annual company retreat every summer

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