Mid Level Back End Engineer

motorolasolutions; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Bonus schemes

Holiday entitlement + holidays

Private medical insurance

Employee stock purchase plan

Flexible working options

Life assurance

Maternity/Paternity pay

Learning opportunities

Wellbeing support

CSR volunteering days

Discount scheme

Job summary

Motorola Solutions UK Limited in Edinburgh seeks an experienced frontend engineer to develop and maintain our Avigilon Alta Video UI. You will work on Vue 3-based tooling, implement state management patterns, and integrate APIs in a hybrid office/remote setup with two days in the office.

The role emphasizes high‑quality, tested code, collaboration with cross‑functional teams, and progressing toward scalable real‑time UI solutions. A strong foundation in web tech is required.

Qualifications

• 1–3 years software engineering with HTML, CSS, and TypeScript.
• Understanding state patterns (Pinia/Vuex/Redux) and reactivity.
• RESTful API and websockets basics; web development principles.
• Good fundamentals in data structures, algorithms and design patterns.
• Team player with ability to collaborate with other teams.

Responsibilities

• Analyze, develop, maintain software for our products and systems.
• Build, test, and debug maintainable code.
• Implement state management and API integrations for scaling.
• Understand CI/CD concepts and deployment basics; use Git.
• Communicate effectively with teams for requirements.

Skills

HTML

CSS

TypeScript

Frontend frameworks

State management

Collaboration

Tools

Vue 3

Pinia

Redux

Go

Job description

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 Avigilon Alta Video UI team is responsible for the mission‑critical infrastructure that powers our VMS. We are currently evolving our platform to support deep‑tier interconnection across the Motorola product portfolio. Our team values high-performance engineering, architectural integrity, and a commitment to building the most reliable real‑time tools in the industry.

While our stack features Vue 3, Pinia, and TypeScript on the frontend and Go on the backend, we prioritize engineering fundamentals over specific library knowledge. We are looking for a developer who can navigate logic, manage state, and help us build maintainable solutions.

We have a fantastic city center office in the heart of Edinburgh and fully embrace a hybrid home/office working model, with an aim for 2 days in the office.

Job Description

• Analyzes, develops, maintains software for the organization’s products and systems. Familiarity with/interest in engineering patterns and best practices.

• Develops, validates, and tests: can build tested, maintainable code and debug when necessary.

• Implements state management patterns and API integrations to support a scaling ecosystem.

• Delivery: basic understanding of CI/CD principles and deployment, Git.

• Communicates: comfortable collaborating with other teams on solutions and reaching out for information/requirements when necessary.

Basic Requirements

• Experience: 1-3 years of software engineering experience with knowledge of HTML, CSS, TypeScript and arguably modern frontend frameworks.

• Logic & State: Understanding of application state patterns, data flows (e.g., Pinia, Vuex, or Redux) and reactivity/observables.

• API & Infrastructure: hands‑on experience with RESTful API, websockets… Solid understanding of web development principles.

• Engineering Mindset: a good foundation in data structures/algorithms and design patterns. Ability to see the long‑term implications of solutions.

• Collaboration: Demonstrated team player skills and a willingness to work with others.

Desired Skills

• Resilient Systems: excited about building, operating, and maintaining resilient, scalable systems. Tests their code.

• Analysis: ability to investigate and get to the root cause of issues and find a solution.

• Flexibility: happy exploring new areas of the codebase and jumping into new features (with help, of course). Can prioritise effectively.

• Willingness to learn: we’re always looking to improve our codebase, whether via patterns or libraries and we review code.

• Remote Culture: the team is distributed across geographies, and you’re happy working remotely part of the week.

We believe that a diverse and inclusive workplace spawns innovation – the more diverse our employees are, the more ideas and talents we have to excel as a leader in the technology sector. If you would like to be part of a dynamic team of people who are ambitious, focused, and hardworking then we look forward to meeting you!

In return for your expertise, we’ll support you in this new challenge with coaching & development every step of the way. Also, to reward your hard work you’ll get:

• Competitive salary and bonus schemes
• Two weeks of 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
• We are an equal opportunities employer and we want you to have every opportunity to shine and show us your talents, please let us know if there is anything we can do to make sure the process works for you. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees

Travel Requirements

None

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.