Who you are

• You are ambitious and always looking for ways to improve
• For most engineers, this role will give you the most responsibilities you’ve ever had, while holding you to higher standards than other companies you’ve worked at
• Don’t rest on your past achievements — expect to work your hardest and do the best work of your career at Motion
• You will receive lots of coaching and feedback that you should seek to grow from
• You can take ownership of projects and lead them to completion while dealing with ambiguity and finding the right balance between speed and quality
• You don’t need every detail and edge case spelled out for you because you can figure out the goals of the project and fill in the blanks
• You are a fast learner and can quickly familiarize yourself with a complex product and code base
• You aren’t afraid to tackle any part of the stack or learn a new unfamiliar technology
• You are comfortable with the fact that working in a startup means working around tech debt
• You have a strong understanding of how you can create the most impact, and don’t get lost in the weeds in details that don’t matter
• You’re excited to work on whatever solves the biggest customer problems, not just the coolest technical challenges
• You can collaborate effectively with other talented engineers and work well in an environment where the best ideas win
• The median engineer at Motion has 9 years experience
• You should expect your ideas to get challenged and to learn a lot from your coworkers

What the job involves

• Motion is building the first end-to-end agentic work suite for everyday businesses. Unlike point solutions or bolt-on tools, Motion was built from the ground up with AI agents at the core
• Our platform already powers project management, documents, sheets, calendars, meetings, knowledge, and communication — and now we’re layering in AI Employees that can autonomously execute work across all of it
• What makes us different is that our agents are natively embedded in the platform. They’re not integrations, and they’re not copilots that just suggest things — they actually complete work with full access to data, context, and workflows
• In just three months, AI Employees have grown from $0 to eight-figure ARR, and we’re only getting started
• With backing from YC and Sam Altman, a $500M+ valuation, and hundreds of thousands of users, we’re well positioned to lead. Now we’re building agents that work with extreme accuracy and unlock an order-of-magnitude boost in productivity
• Motion is intense, fast, and not for everyone. We're a great place to focus, learn, and accelerate your career
• If you want to work with top talent, push yourself harder than you thought possible, and help redefine how AI gets deployed in the real world, then you’ll thrive here
• Motion is undergoing a complete frontend re-architecture. As we scale from a small consumer app to a suite of B2B products, we need to maintain performance and scalability. Example initiatives include:
• Implementing a local-first sync engine to keep data always up to date
• Supporting offline mode
• Splitting up the app into micro frontends
• Dramatically reducing time to first paint
• And many, many more deep initiatives
• This will be a role where you will make long-lasting technical decisions and permanently shape the app
• You will work with other staff+ engineers on the frontend and the backend to drive major technical initiatives across the finish line

Benefits

• Motion offers a competitive salary and equity compensation, medical, dental, and vision health insurance