Ex-Technical Founder / Founding Engineer

Location: Canada, United States

Department: Engineering

Location Type: REMOTE

Employment Type: FULL_TIME

About Motion 💡

About the role

• 🔗 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 were learning, and what it means for us to be building an AI product today.

What youd be doing

• Shipping features across the product: understand the problem, make the call, build it, and own the outcome.
• Working on a small, high-ownership, cross-functional team.
• Shipping to production in your first week and owning a significant initiative in your first month.
• Working with the team to use more AI better and improving things across the stack from your experience
• Fixing whatever is in the way, youve done this before.

Our ideal fit brings

• You were the technical founder, co-founder, or one of the first engineers at a startup, and you personally wrote a meaningful share of the code, recently.
• Years of shipping product, ideally in a small team where you owned the outcome
• You can make complicated architecture sound simple. You can explain why you built what you built, what you’d change, tradeoffs you made, and how it fits together.
• Comfort building without a spec. 
• Any background: self-taught, bootcamp, degree. We love talent from everywhere!

You’re probably not the right fit if:

• Youre looking for a “leadership” role. This is an IC role where you get judged by your ability to product. Ideally you’ll show leadership, but through influence and competence, not title.
• You need process or clear requirements. Its chaotic here in the way early companies are: priorities move, context-switching is a constant, ambiguities abound, you have to do the executing. 
• Youre skeptical about AI. Were betting hard on not just agentic coding, but on Runneth is a bet on the idea of agentic employees. Yes there’s still work to do in adapting to the new reality, but we’re all in.

How to apply ✉️

What youll 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.
• Remote-first with hybrid flexibility: Were a remote-first company with team members spanning Canada, the U.S., and beyond, but also have office spaces in 4 main hubs (Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, and Porto) for optional hybrid work.
• 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 youre excited about building, you’ll thrive here!
• Award-winning team: Were a low-ego, high-performing team that was just ranked #19 on G2s list of Best Canadian Software Companies for 2026.
• Team connection:
  • Virtual: Day-to-day, we use Roam, an AI-powered virtual office platform that fosters spontaneous collaboration, drop into meetings or quick chats, and interact with colleagues for a simulated, live digital headquarters.
  • In-person: Outside of the option to go to one of our offices, our team gets together in-person for a week every two months, and we have a company retreat every summer.