About Motiv
Build a career that is as innovative as you are.

Motiv is an innovation company specializing in venture building. Through our integrated business lines – Motiv Digital, Motiv Growth, Motiv Innovation, and Motiv Venture Studio – we provide comprehensive support across every step of innovation, venture building, and commercialization. Each business line focuses on a distinct aspect of the innovation journey:

• Motiv Digital: Specializing in the development of digital platforms, including websites, apps, and enterprise platforms, to drive transformation and create exceptional user experiences.
• Motiv Growth: Delivering growth strategies and tactical execution to scale and expand business ventures, accelerating market impact and long-term success.
• Motiv Innovation: Providing corporate innovation strategy and solutions, to help organizations identify opportunities and pursue innovation initiatives.
• Motiv Venture Studio: Offering an end-to-end venture building process for corporates and startups, from ideation to market launch and scaling.

As a sector-agnostic innovation firm, we have developed and scaled ventures across industries, including medtech, sportstech, fintech, deeptech, and more. By joining Motiv, you’ll collaborate with a forward-thinking team deeply passionate about innovation, working on projects that shape the future of industries and create meaningful impact.

SKILLS & EXPERIENCE

We’re looking for candidates with the following experience:

• A minimum of 5 years of professional web application development
• Using HTML, CSS/SCSS, Tailwind, and Javascript (ES6) for building web interfaces
• Building SPAs and PWAs using Nuxt.js 3, Vue.js (or equivalent frameworks, such as Next.js and React.js)
• Up-to-date with latest accessibility standards (WCAG 2.2 AA)
• Back-end development with Node.js and package managers (npm, pnpm)
• Designing and working with SQL (MySQL, Postgres) or NoSQL (MongoDB, DynamoDB) databases
• Familiarity with Pulumi, Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, or other IaC frameworks is a bonus, but not required
• Familiarity with Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, or other IaC frameworks is a bonus, but not required
• Systems architecture (i.e. monolithic, microservices, or serverless) experience is an asset
• Mobile app development experience using Flutter is a bonus
• Collaborating in a team environment using Git version-control
• Demonstrate clean and communicative code hygiene

Please submit your resume and a cover letter outlining your experience.
Motiv’s mission is to make the world a better place through digital innovation. To do this right and make a real impact, we must include everyone in the process. Simply put, Motiv is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We aim to create a workplace that honours and celebrates the diversity of our employees, clients, partners, and users. We endeavour to build products that work for everyone by including perspectives from backgrounds that vary by race, ethnicity, social background, religion, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, veteran status, and national origin.
Don’t meet every single requirement? If you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or another role.
Job Type: Full-time

Benefits:

• Company events
• Dental care
• Extended health care
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision care
• Wellness program

Application question(s):

• How do you ensure clean and communicative code hygiene?
• Are you able to work full-time in-office at our Calgary office?

Work Location: In perso

As a full-stack developer, you will be responsible for the architecture and development of immersive, responsive, and accessible web applications. Ideal candidates should have experience in both front-end and back-end development.
As part of the Motiv team, you must have an immense attention to detail and embrace new challenges. Come prepared to push the boundaries using the latest technologies.

In our fast-paced world you will have the opportunity to:

• Collaborate with design, marketing, and strategy teams to deliver effective web solutions
• Take ownership of balancing technical performance with business objectives
• Work independently to model and solve complex problems efficiently using best practices and design patterns
• Continuously learn and improve on skills and technologies to create technical advantages and meet client needs
• Communicate work through presentation, documentation and contribute to maintaining documentation that will be presented to clients and the team
• Excellent communication skills to convey processes, time, scope, budget parameters and progress to your team and clients
• Take ownership of work and contribute to keep projects on time and budget
• Contribute to group problem-solving; confidence in voicing opinions and defending inputs