Motorola Solutions
Senior Software Engineer
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Company Overview
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.
Department Overview
The Motorola Solutions 'International Mobile Applications’ organisation is responsible for creating the mission critical software solutions which serve emergency first responders across public safety agencies worldwide. The solutions created by this organisation are used by hundreds of thousands of police officers, firefighters and paramedics every day and aim to improve the effectiveness of our emergency services response.
The various applications that we build for first responders are deployed across a wide range of different device types and are sophisticated solutions comprising client applications, server applications, web applications and databases.
Within the organisation, we are organised into different product groups focusing on different sectors and territories across the world. This specific role is focused on our solution which serves UK Fire agencies.
Job Description
This role is hybrid, consisting of work from our offices and home, with home-working permitted most of the time and offices being used for meetings and team days. You will ideally be based in and around our Glasgow office.
Our Motorola Glasgow office is our worldwide centre of excellence for our mobile software development and we would like applicants to be located within commuting distance of this office, however this is a hybrid role where the candidate will have the option to work from home some/most days if preferred – with the office being used for occasional in-person meetings and team days.
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This role will be responsible for working as a software engineer within a small, strong team of approximately 7 other software engineers, who range from senior to junior level. We are looking to supplement our existing team with someone who is a very strong software engineer, who will have had previous industry experience developing complex full stack software solutions.
The ideal candidate will be an excellent programmer, likely with extensive existing experience of at least one general purpose language (such as Java or C#) but should be comfortable picking up and using new software languages as required. The candidate should have a strong understanding of the design patterns and concepts required to architect and build scalable, high performing, fault tolerant software solutions.
Basic Requirements
Required:
- A relevant university qualification such as a BSc Computing Science or BSc Software Engineering
- 5+ 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.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills.
- Must be able to attain Non-Police-Personnel-Vetting Level 3 (NPPV3) - which includes the need for a minimum of 3 years UK residency
Desirable:
- Previous experience building high performing scalable server applications using technologies such as Java or C#
- Previous experience architecting and developing server/gateway applications and client/server model communications
- Previous working experience in an Agile environment (Scrum)
Nice to have:
- Previous experience of developing web applications using HTML, CSS, React, etc.
- Previous experience of architecting and developing mobile smartphone applications (such as Android and iOS) using technologies such as Java, Kotlin, Objective C, or React Native.
- Previous experience of architecting and developing .net/Windows applications, with experience of Windows UI frameworks (e.g. WPF, WinUI, etc.)
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In return for your expertise, we’ll support you in this new challenge with coaching and development every step of the way. Also, to reward your hard work you’ll get:
- Competitive salary and bonus schemes.
- Two weeks additional pay per year (holiday bonus).
- 25 days holiday entitlement + bank holidays.
- Attractive defined contribution pension scheme.
- Employee stock purchase plan.
- 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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Travel Requirements
Under 10%
Relocation Provided
None
Position Type
Experienced
Referral Payment Plan
Yes
Company
Motorola Solutions UK Limited
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.
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