Software Engineer

Motorola Solutions Inc; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Bonus schemes

Holiday pay bonus

Private medical insurance

Pension scheme

Employee stock purchase plan

Flexible working options

Life assurance

Wellbeing support

Job summary

Motorola Solutions UK Limited seeks an experienced software engineer to join our International Mobile Applications team in Glasgow. You will work in an agile environment to deliver mission-critical software for UK police and first responders, shaping frontend and backend architectures, APIs and mobile components.

You will collaborate with product owners, designers and cross-functional teams, contributing to robust, scalable software across platforms and devices.

Qualifications

• Must have a university degree in a computing/engineering field.
• 3+ years of commercial software engineering experience.
• Full stack experience across frontend and backend.
• Strong understanding of design patterns for scalable software.
• Experience architecting server/gateway and client/server models.
• Experience developing mobile smartphone apps.

Responsibilities

• Develop, architect and implement complex systems for first responders.
• Contribute to the full software development lifecycle from concept to deployment.
• Collaborate with product owners and designers to deliver robust UX.

Skills

Full stack development

Strong communication

Agile/Scrum

Education

BSc Computing Science

Tools

Java/Kotlin

Spring Boot

REST APIs

SQL (MSSQL)

Vue/React/Angular

Gradle

GitHub Actions

XML/XSLT

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.

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 Police agencies. Our ‘Pronto’ team is the largest supplier of mobile police apps in the UK, providing software to half of the UK’s 45 police forces - used by around 70,000 police officers on a daily basis. Based in the West End of Glasgow, we currently have around 80 employees. Our team started as Kelvin Connect in 2002, a spin‑out company from the University of Glasgow. Now, as part of Motorola Solutions, we continue to expand with future opportunities in the UK and beyond.

Job Description

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.

Key Responsibilities

• 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.

What We’re Looking For

• 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.

Basic Requirements

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

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 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.

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.