Software Engineer

At Motorola Solutions, we believe that everything starts with our people. We’re a global close-knit community, united by the relentless pursuit to help keep people safer everywhere. We build and connect technologies to help protect people, property and places. Our solutions foster the collaboration that’s critical for safer communities, safer schools, safer hospitals, safer businesses, and ultimately, safer nations. Connect with a career that matters, and help us build a safer future.

This role will involve working as part of an agile team of software engineers to architect and implement complex systems for first responders. We are looking for candidates with a strong full-stack software development background and who are capable of delivering robust software to join our growing engineering team. 

You will be responsible for helping to contribute to the entire software development lifecycle, from conceptualisation and design to implementation across platforms. You will work alongside our product owner and designers to turn complex problems into seamless, performant experiences.

• →Develop: Build clean, interactive, and responsive user experiences using modern frontend frameworks such as Vue.
• →Integrate: Navigate and build upon our established codebase, ensuring new functionality aligns with current architectural patterns while identifying opportunities for modernisation or refactoring.
• →Design: Design technical solutions from inception to deployment, balancing architectural best practices with great user experiences.
• →Collaborate: Foster a collaborative engineering culture by participating in code reviews and sharing knowledge with teammates to solve complex technical challenges.
• →Contribute: Contribute to the development of new features and support architecture design as well as implementation. 

• Technical Depth: Ability to adapt quickly to a legacy codebase, with the patience and problem-solving skills needed to understand and improve upon those systems.
• Innovation: A desire to challenge established design patterns and build upon those systems. 
• Operational Excellence: Experience with collaborating with a team employing Agile/Scrum methodologies.

Required:

• Must be able to attain Non-Police-Personnel-Vetting Level 3 (NPPV3) - which includes the need for a minimum of 3 years UK residency
• A relevant university qualification such as a BSc Computing Science or BSc Software Engineering
• 3+ years of experience in commercial software engineering
• Full stack experience across a variety of technologies including front-end and back-end
• A strong understanding of software design patterns used for architecting and developing high performing, scalable software solutions
• Previous experience architecting and developing server/gateway applications and client/server model communications
• Previous experience of architecting and developing mobile smartphone applications
• Strong communication and collaboration skills

Desirable:

• Previous working experience in an Agile environment (Scrum)

• Java and/or Kotlin
• Struts and Sprint Boot
• REST APIs
• SQL (preferably MSSQL)
• Vue, Angular, React, HTML/CSS
• AndroidX, Compose, Room
• Gradle
• CI/CD using GitHub Actions
• XML processing, XSLT, Saxon, JAXB

Nice to have:

• Distributed event streaming platforms (Azure Event Hubs, Apache Kafka)
• OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, JWT
• Google Web Toolkit (GWT), Kotlin multiplatform
• Experience with Playwright

• Competitive salary and bonus schemes
• Two weeks additional pay per year (holiday bonus).
• 25 days holiday entitlement + bank holidays.  
• Attractive defined contribution pension scheme.
• Private medical insurance.
• Employee stock purchase plan.
• Flexible working options. 
• Life assurance.
• Enhanced maternity and paternity pay.
• Career development support and wide ranging learning opportunities.
• Employee health and wellbeing support EAP, wellbeing guidance etc.
• Carbon neutral initiatives/goals.
• Corporate social responsibility initiatives including support for volunteering days.
• Well known companies discount scheme.

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EEO Statement

Motorola Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other legally-protected characteristic. 

We are proud of our people-first and community-focused culture, empowering every Motorolan to be their most authentic self and to do their best work to deliver on the promise of a safer world. If you’d like to join our team but feel that you don’t quite meet all of the preferred skills, we’d still love to hear why you think you’d be a great addition to our team.