--- title: 'Senior Software Engineer (Hybrid / Montreal) at Motion' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/senior-software-engineer-hybrid-montreal-motion-montreal-z006xmm43rmw' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-11-04' --- # Senior Software Engineer (Hybrid / Montreal) at Motion - **Company:** Motion - **Location:** Montréal, Canada - **Compensation:** $215k–$300k - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** onsite - **Posted:** 2026-10-30 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-04 - **Apply:** https://jobs.gem.com/motion/am9icG9zdDpzYtOWUSKlZ_pc7HpgHTys ## Job description ## About Motion 💡 Motion is building the command center for creative strategists: an AI-native platform that bridges the gap between performance marketers and creative teams, so they can uncover what’s working, what’s not, and ship more winning ads across platforms like YouTube, LinkedIn, Meta, and TikTok. ⁠​ We're at the forefront of AI as the foundation of our product. Motion now automatically analyzes and organizes creative at scale and surfaces competitor trends. And with [Runneth](https://runneth.com/) - the AI brain for the 100x marketer - we're going further: a persistent creative strategy agent that lives where your team already works (Slack, Notion, Google Drive, your ad data) and turns a marketer's knowledge and instincts into cross-channel playbooks, automated workflows, and a system that gets smarter over time. Our bet isn't that AI replaces great marketers. It's that the best marketers will use AI to operate at a scale that wasn't previously possible. ⁠​ Today, Motion is trusted by some of the world’s top e-commerce and direct-to-consumer brands and agencies (including Vuori, True Classic, The Farmer’s Dog, and HexClad) and has analyzed over $14B in media spend. When leading brands want to understand their creative performance, they turn to us. Our founders have built successful companies before, including alongside several of the people now at Motion. A number of teammates chose to build again here — a reflection of the trust, culture, and conviction behind what we’re building. The people building Motion are deeply embedded in where AI and our industry is heading, and obsessed with closing the gap between what's possible and what's actually shipping in product. We're a 75 person remote team backed by $65M+ in funding with a valuation that's nearly 3x'd in under two years. If you want to work on a hard problem, with people who've done it before, and a product that customers genuinely love - we'd love to connect! ▶️ [Brief overview of the Motion product](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTK8WuTcwxk) & [Runneth](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIAemGNlKjQ) from our Co-Founder & CEO, [Reza Khadjavi](https://www.linkedin.com/in/reza-khadjavi-46802918/). ## 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](https://www.notion.so/motion-app/Engineering-at-Motion-1a4246a6b0e08062bdbbf269609bc7ea#1a4246a6b0e08062bdbbf269609bc7ea) to learn more about our team, our work, and how we build together. - 👩‍💻 Browse our [Engineering Blog](https://motionengineering.substack.com/) 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. We use artificial intelligence (AI) in certain parts of our recruiting process at Motion, ranging from administrative and efficiency-focused support to, in some cases, conducting introductory interviews. Every AI interview is reviewed, and every hiring decision is made, by a (human) member of our team. ## About Motion ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Motion is a creative analytics command center that helps performance marketers and creative teams analyze ad performance, research trends, and generate data-backed creative recommendations. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series B) - **Headquarters**: Toronto, Canada - **Founded**: 2021 - **Founders**: Reza Khadjavi (CEO), Alexander Sloan (CTO), David Berglas (CFO/Head of Finance) ## Core Business - **Primary industry/industries**: Advertising Technology (AdTech), Creative Analytics, Marketing Software - **Target customers**: B2B; primarily Direct-to-Consumer (DTC) e-commerce brands, performance marketing agencies, and increasingly B2B SaaS companies and consumer apps. - **Mission or purpose statement**: Not publicly stated in a formal mission, but the company operates as a "command centre for creative strategists," bridging the gap between performance marketers and creative teams to ship more winning ads. ## Products & Services - **[Creative Analytics]**: The core product. Automatically groups ad creatives from Meta, TikTok, YouTube, and LinkedIn for a holistic view of performance. Uses AI to auto-tag creatives by asset type, visual format, hook, and creative angle, revealing winning patterns across over 200 metrics. - **[Creative Research]**: A newer product that extends Motion’s capabilities to the research side of ad production, helping teams hunt down top rival creatives, build plans to beat them, and find trends in messaging and audience targeting. - **[AI Agents & AI-Assisted Recommendations]**: AI features that provide automated analysis of thousands of ads, suggesting what to fix next with rationale and data-backed evidence. Includes an AI agent that tracks competitor ads and delivers strategic intel. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed. The Series B round was at a "much higher" valuation than the Series A, but the exact figure is private. - **Key Metric**: Total Funding: **$42 million USD**. Breakdown: $6M seed (Sept 2022), $6M Series A (Dec 2023), $30M Series B (mid-2024). Annual Recurring Revenue is not public, but the company claims 3x YoY growth for the first three years and now tripling revenue year-over-year. - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Inovia Capital (led Series B), Threshold Ventures (new backer), Headline (led seed & Series A), Abstract Ventures, Sugar Capital. - **Growth Signals**: Doubled headcount from 25 to 50 employees over the past year (now ~75-78 globally). Serves over 1,000 customers who analyze over $14B in media spend annually. Named Dara Denney (YouTube and advertising industry influencer) as Chief Evangelist. Expanding beyond core DTC e-commerce into B2B SaaS and consumer apps. ## Competitive Advantages - **AI-first, specialized vertical focus**: Unlike generic analytics tools, Motion’s AI is specifically trained on the ad frameworks and techniques of elite DTC advertisers, giving highly contextual and actionable creative recommendations rather than generic advice. - **Visual-first, holistic reporting**: Automatically groups creatives to show winning patterns (hooks, angles, CTAs) rather than just individual ad performance. This is a clear differentiator for creative strategists who need to see the "big picture." - **Strong customer stickiness & brand**: Customers claim Motion saves hundreds of hours annually on creative reporting (e.g., The Social Savannah saves 520 hours/year). High-profile brand clients (HexClad, Vuori, A24 Films) provide social proof. - **Deep integrations**: Aligns with major social platforms (Meta, TikTok, LinkedIn, YouTube) and attribution tools like Northbeam. ## Strategic Focus - **Product Acceleration**: Using Series B funding to rapidly develop the core Creative Analytics product and the new Creative Research tool. - **Vertical Expansion**: Targeting B2B SaaS companies and consumer apps as new customer segments beyond its core DTC e-commerce base. - **Go-to-Market & Education**: Investing heavily in educational content, the "Creative Strategist Summit," and hiring a Chief Evangelist to train and build community around creative strategy. - **Headcount Growth**: Actively hiring across sales, marketing, customer success, and engineering (especially Senior Backend and Infrastructure roles). ## Why Work Here - **Remote-First Culture**: The company is remote-first with a global team across 7 countries (Canada, US, Portugal, UK, Brazil). They offer optional co-working spaces in Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, and Porto. - **Compensation & Benefits**: Offers a comprehensive package including competitive salary, equity, 20 days of vacation plus local holidays, paid sick days, and 14 weeks of paid parental leave for birthing parent. - **Excellent Perks**: $1,500 home office stipend, monthly internet covered, monthly health & lifestyle stipend, and medical/dental coverage. - **Culture & Community**: Hosts company retreats and team offsites to build in-person camaraderie. Has a strong emphasis on learning and education, with the company positioning itself as a thought leader in creative strategy. - **Growth Opportunity**: As a fast-growing startup (3x revenue YoY, doubling headcount), there is significant opportunity for impact and career advancement. Open roles span senior engineering positions and customer-facing teams. ## Sources 1. [motionapp.com](https://motionapp.com) 2. [motionapp.com/careers](https://motionapp.com/careers) 3. [LinkedIn (motion1)](https://linkedin.com/company/motion1) 4. 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