Motorola Solutions
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
At Motorola Solutions, we believe that everything starts with safety. Safety is the constant that empowers people to confidently move forward. It can fill a flight or sell out a stadium. It can care for a patient or graduate a class.
As a global leader in public safety and enterprise security, we create and connect the technologies that help to keep people safe where they live, learn, work, and play. Our integrated technology ecosystem unifies critical communications, video security and access control, and CommandCentral software, enabling collaboration in more powerful ways.
At Motorola Solutions, we’re ushering in a new era in public safety and security. Bring your passion, potential, and talents to a career that matters.
The Guardian Mobile team sits within Motorola Solutions' International Mobile Applications organisation and serves frontline requirements for UK Fire officers - across mobile platforms such as Windows MDTs, Android, and iOS.
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.
The Guardian Mobile solution is responsible for creating mobile solutions and mobile gateway servers for our UK Fire Service customers. Our core solution has been developed over the past 20 years, primarily as a DELPHI-based Windows Client for Panasonic Toughpads and as a DELPHI-based gateway server which connects to third-party Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD) systems and other third-party systems.
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We are entering a period of modernisation to our product stack and wish to ensure that we maintain support for our existing products and customers while continuing to innovate, refine, and modernise our offerings. This includes the creation of new Android/iOS-based applications while ensuring longevity for our existing applications.
The “Software Engineer” role will be responsible for working within a team of approximately 10 software engineers who design, develop, and release these software solutions for our UK Fire Service customers. The post holder will be responsible for developing high-quality, high-performing software at a high velocity in accordance with the direction set by the Senior Manager of Software Engineering, working closely with our Product Manager for our UK Fire Mobile product.
The post holder will report to the Senior Manager of Software Engineering. The post holder will work alongside Senior Software Engineers and other Software Engineers. This post is suitable for graduate-level engineers or for those early in their career, and the successful candidates will receive guidance and mentoring from the more senior members of the team.
Basic Requirements
Required:
- A relevant university qualification such as a BSc Computing Science or BSc Software Engineering.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills.
- Must be able to attain Non-Police-Personnel-Vetting Level 3 (NPPV3).
Desirable:
- 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 developing web applications using HTML, CSS, React, etc.
- Previous experience of architecting and developing .net/Windows applications, with experience of Windows UI frameworks (e.g. WPF, WinUI, etc.)
- Previous experience architecting and developing server/gateway applications and client/server model communications.
- Previous working experience in an Agile environment (Scrum).
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Nice to have:
- Previous experience of developing solutions for emergency services agencies.
- Previous experience of working with DELPHI.
Benefits
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.
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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