Lead Software Engineer, Backend

MOTER Technologies, Inc. (“MOTER”) is unlocking the world of connected vehicle data to power innovative products and services for the automotive, mobility, and insurance industries. Our edge-computing-based advanced data analytics and software platform transforms vehicle data into actionable insights that drive the next generation of driver scoring, risk analytics, and insurance solutions.

MOTER is modernizing the insurance industry by equipping insurers with real‑time vehicle insights to enhance underwriting, streamline claims, and improve risk assessment. To drive this transformation, MOTER is building white‑labeled insurance products for some of the most recognized brands in the automotive industry. These offerings leverage the full suite of MOTER’s connected vehicle data solutions—including next‑generation telematics and claims visualization tools—bridging the gap between automakers and insurers, accelerating innovation, and delivering measurable value across the mobility ecosystem.

The Lead Software Engineer, Backend owns and drives the design, development, and delivery of MOTER’s API platform and cloud infrastructure. This is a senior, hands‑on technical leadership role for a serverless‑first, cloud‑native Java engineer with deep AWS expertise who thrives on end‑to‑end ownership — from architecture and API design through production operations.

This role is AI‑native: we expect code generation, refactoring, test scaffolding, and a meaningful share of implementation work to be performed through AI coding agents. The engineer in this role is responsible for decomposing work for agents, reviewing and hardening outputs, validating correctness, and owning the reliability, security, and maintainability of what ships. The ideal candidate is fluent in AI‑native engineering — comfortable directing coding agents, owning what they produce, and raising the bar on what the team ships.

This role will lead a team of engineers, set technical direction, collaborate cross‑functionally with product and data science teams, and be accountable for the reliability, scalability, and performance of MOTER’s core API services. The Lead Software Engineer reports to the Director of Engineering.

• Architect and lead development of scalable RESTful and event‑driven APIs in Java on a serverless‑first, cloud‑native AWS foundation, ensuring high availability and performance across MOTER’s platform.
• Drive end‑to‑end ownership of the software development lifecycle — from requirements and design through coding, testing, deployment, and post‑production support.
• Design and implement serverless‑first, cloud‑native solutions on AWS — including Lambda, Step Functions, Dynamo
  
  DB, App Sync, API Gateway, S3, SQS/SNS, and Event Bridge — using Terraform for infrastructure as code and following best practices in security, cost optimization, and resilience.
• Apply serverless architecture patterns — including event‑driven design, async messaging, idempotency, fan‑out/fan‑in, and saga orchestration with Step Functions — to build resilient, loosely coupled, and maintainable cloud‑native services.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines and Terraform‑managed infrastructure as code; own observability across services using tools such as Datadog, New Relic, or AWS Cloud Watch — including distributed tracing, structured logging, custom metrics, dashboards, and alerting.

• Lead MOTER’s AI‑native engineering culture: leverage AI coding agents for code generation, refactoring, test scaffolding, and implementation acceleration. Own the decomposed work for agents, critically reviewing and hardening outputs, validating correctness, and ensuring that everything shipped meets MOTER’s standards for reliability, security, and maintainability.
• Evaluate and adopt emerging AI coding tooling and developer productivity platforms; stay at the forefront of AI‑assisted engineering practices and help the team use them effectively.

• Operate as a player/coach: remain a prolific, hands‑on contributor while guiding and elevating mid‑level and senior engineers through code…